My name is Martin Pool, I'm a 24 year old self
taught sculptor, I first started sculpting when I was just 4 years of age, my parents bought
me my first packet of plasticine and I never looked back. There
was barely a day went by when I wouldn’t be making things out of
my modelling clay, I loved it and it came very naturally to me.
Nobody pushed me in to sculpting and nobody pushed me to keep going
with it, I've just always felt a natural urge inside me to sculpt
and to continually improve and raise my standards. As silly as it
might sound, even though I'm only 24 I've actually been sculpting
for around 16 years +, this is taking in to account a few years when
I didn't do anything with my sculpting, but I could never stop
coming back to it.
I got my first professional sculpting
job when I was just 17 after doing work experience at Aardman Animations
(the creators of Wallace and Gromit etc) with no sculpting
qualifications or degrees and in a world were so much importance is
placed on needing qualifications I'm very proud to be self taught
and to have achieved success based on my natural talent alone. I
worked at Aardman Animations on and off for a few years, I worked on
Creature Comforts series 2 UK, and Creature Comforts USA. After that
I tried a few business ventures of my own, and again I've come back
to my sculpting. I never feel more comfortable and happy within my
self unless I'm being creative and it's a fantastic feeling to be
able to create sculptures that people from all over the world will
treasure for a long time to come.
I hope this has been of interest and I hope you
enjoy viewing and purchasing my sculptures!!!
To see
my sculptures please watch the video
below!
