PUPPETS

My career in puppetry started at the age of 17 when, with two friends, we formed the ‘Anglo-Hellenic Puppet Company’ and toured around the Greek Islands, performing ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ in French, Greek and English. Next, I designed and made a mobile ‘walkabout’ puppet booth, in the style of Far-Eastern medieval puppeteers and walked around Northern France with a pram full of puppets performing ‘Beauty and the Junk Food Beast’. 

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As a student of the London School of Puppetry I created another ‘walkabout’ performance which animated the medieval painting by Jan van Eyck called ‘The Marriage of Giovanni Arnolfini' which I performed outside The National Gallery in London. 

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I was then commissioned to make a set of Punch and Judy puppets for the world's youngest Punch and Judy showman, and this led to my work with Horse and Bamboo Theatre.

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Other puppetry commissions have included designing an eight part TV puppet series co production between Yorkshire Television and Ostankina TV Moscow, some puppet making on the award-winning Shockheaded Peter, and many puppets designed and made for Dynamic New Animation.

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Image on right: 'Stray Tom Cat' for Charlotte's Web

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