The journey goes way back. I was shown a way and a faith, and an understanding around the faith of Christianity, in the way my father lived – he was a man who’d been served as an example to me in the way he led his life. I’d go to church with him at 7 a.m. on a Sunday, which sowed a seed in me. It led me towards this question: “Where is my faith?”
The Face of Christ has been with me for over 40 years. I have searched for His face through my art as part of my spiritual journey, and also in the work of many others – especially Renaissance artists like Giotto, Piero della Francesca and Michelangelo. When I was an art student at Chelsea I had a wonderful teacher who sent us to the British Museum for a day, and it was there I encountered the Parthenon Frieze with the Horse of Selene, which was to change my life. The image consumed me and I was shown the strength, poise and majesty of the horse, carved by the Greeks with perfect precision and excellence.
