Denise and Peter Griffin have been professional Sculptors since graduating in Sculpture at Camberwell School of Art in 1987 and have worked continually on private and public sculpture commissions in the UK, USA, Australia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, India and Nepal.

Much of their sculpture is steeped in the tradition of Tibetan Buddhist iconography and after training with Tibetan master statue-makers in India and Nepal they spent much of the past 19 years creating statues for temples and monasteries throughout the world.

In 1997 Denise and Peter were commissioned by the Maitreya Project to create the prototype for a 500ft / 152m high bronze statue which is soon to begin construction in India. Their life-size statue will be accurately scaled-up and the final bronze statue will be 500ft (152m) high – a height equivalent to that of a 50-storey building! It will be the tallest sculpture in the world when it is completed in 2009.

Denise and Peter moved back to the UK in 1999 and have established a studio in Dorset where they continue to work by commission.

Peter has recently been in the USA where he has been working on a 5m high private sculpture commission and he has just completed a major public monument in the UK - a 3.5 metre high carved column of Portland stone that is part of a large development within the town of Sturminster Newton. The project (commissioned and funded by the Sturminster Newton Rotary Club as well as Arts Council England) celebrates Sturminster Newton’s famous 778 yr old cattle market in four bas-relief carvings. Click here to see photos of the completed statue. More information can be found at the Sturminster Newton Rotary Club web site.