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Daniel Miles has been honing his creative practice for the last 30 years, the roots of his sculptural work reach back into his craftsman foundations as a carpenter and oak frame joiner, a practice that he continues to this day.

He studied stone carving under the Guidance of Peter Randall-Page , Reece Ingram and Simon Thomas.

His sculptural explorations are an interplay with materials and form, travelling as a way of meditation, the edge between chaos and order; success and failure. He works intuitively, using these elemental properties, alongside the properties of his tools to guide him through this landscape of both familiar and alien forms and structures .

His process is simple, taking a step and following it to its conclusion, before assessing and taking the next step. Slow and deliberate actions create forms only partially imagined when begun, with individual works cross evolving and influencing each other as they become, and in turn giving birth to the new.

“In those moments when we are not in control, and remain open to possibility, we are exposed and vulnerable. I have to trust in feeling my way through the darkness, to follow the scent of an idea to its conclusion and its many possibilities.”

This is what drives his work and while on that journey, many works have to fail in order to evolve.

Daniel lives and works in Cornwall , his lovingly hand made creations are collected and lived with throughout the world.