Inspiration for my work stems from two childhood memories : my father arriving home carrying a battered leather suitcase filled to the brim with model planes and ships; Images of travel to far-flung places, namely my birthplace of Australia, where my parents emigrated on the £10 boat passage during the 1960's.

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Returning to London , a love of model-making was instilled in me by my grandfather, an engineer working on the Routemaster buses; who taught me to make toys from scrap materials as was common for the post-war generation.