Peter Brooke-Ball

Peter attended three art colleges and Exeter University before embarking on sculpture professionally. He became frustrated with the art market during the 1980s and spent the next 15 years as a freelance editor and author, publishing 14 non-fiction books. In the mid-1990s he returned to sculpture and hasn’t looked back. He now exhibits regularly in London and has shown in Scotland, Spain and Holland. His work can be seen in the Spanish National Collection in the Museo de Orense, Taunton’s Musgrove Park Hospital and in several sculpture gardens.

When I first started making sculpture professionally,I experimented with various materials – leather, wood, metals and occasionally plastics. In the last five years, I have focused primarily on the innate qualities of stone – mass, colour, texture and resilience – and take great pleasure in the hard graft required to manipulate it. Since my childhood, I have collected stones and rocks and this natural curiosity has now expanded into a scientific interest and a passion for geology; I am currently reading for an Open University degree in Earth Sciences.