As the youngest son of Charles Stadden, the well known military sculptor and artist, I had grown up surrounded by oil paintings, watercolours and sculpture, all researched with meticulous accuracy.

           After completing an engineering degree course, and working in industry for three years I decided in 1987 that my life should take a different course.

            I resigned from my position and began to learn all I could about sculpture from my father in order to pursue a career as a freelance patternmaker.

           As well as making figures in a similar way to my father, I started to make patterns of animals, railway locomotives, aeroplanes, cars, ships and military vehicles. I also became experienced in working for jewellery manufacturers.

           I now work to commission for many different companies from all parts of the giftware market from one man operations to large corporations. The sheer variety of work I am asked to produce provides a constant challenge, from research into the subject to the technical aspects of making a pattern suitable for casting.