The stone that I work in is imported from Zimbabwe. The rocks come from the hills of the great dike, a volcanic ridge that runs 310miles through Zimbabwe’s countryside, the longest linear mass of volcanic rock in the whole world. The rocks on these hills are interlaced with copper, chrome, platinum, gold, emeralds and other precious minerals.

I work with hand tools most of the time. I use a grinder though to cut bases on my sculptures. I combine the shape of the stone together with my imagination to make a sculpture. The tools that I use are Hammer, Punch, Brick Hammer, Rasp, Chisel, Sand papers for washing the sculpture if I have to, Blowlamp to burn the sculpture so it can be polished, some Wax and a Brush to apply the wax on the sculpture and lastly a cloth to buff the sculpture with.

The finished sculpture will often appear in different colours. The springstone will for example have brown/ dark grey part (this is the original part of the stone before working on it), a more light grey part (this is the part of the stone that I have worked on with hammer, chisel etc) and a black part (This is how the stone looks after hours of sanding and a final polishing of the stone)