The Young Count from the Old World contemplates the inevitable.

Recently completed on the Ides of March 2026

This sculpture, carved in marble from from the Chillagoe mines in Queensland, took almost a year to create and is now complete. It is a collage of  stylistic elements. I had no intention of creating a work that mimics one particular look or era. The sculpture is the product of direct carving meaning that I did not use a clay model to work from.

The intellectual stamina needed when working on a human head is enormous.  Every sculptor that engages with this subject, from the great Bernini to Youtubers, describe that as being so.

Learning how to carve the human head from a block of stone is an ongoing fascination. Every small achievement and each technical discovery is a personal triumph.