Alan Biggs

Artist’s name: Alan Biggs

Education: Reading University

Alan Biggs studied drawing and painting at Reading University and the  Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris.  Since 1990 he has concentrated exclusively on sculpture.  He has exhibited mainly in the South of England including at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.

At an open exhibition at St. Albans in 1993, his entry  was awarded  first prize for the best sculpture in the exhibition. In 2004 his design for Bibis Criterion Restaurant in Leeds was awarded the prestigious 'Sign of the Year Award'.

Other recent works include a private commission for Noel Edmonds, a trophy design for the Exeter Leukaemia Fund, a centre piece for the walled garden at Coughton  Court, Alcester, and a life-sized Mother and Child commissioned for  the new NHS Trust Hospital in Okehampton, Devon, which was unveiled by  Prince Charles in November 2004.

In 2006 he completed a group sculpture for the Children's Hospice Association of Scotland at Kinross.  He works mainly to commission , and over the years, has done many portraits particularly of children.