Adam Roud returned to live and work in Hampshire after graduating from John Moores University in Liverpool where he studied Fine Art. Initially working at The Morris Singer Foundry he learnt the process of lost wax and sand casting, where the major figures of the last century have had their sculpture cast: Hepworth, Caro, Paolozzi, Frink, Nemon and Henry Moore.
Since 2000 with a studio and workshop on Lord Portsmouth's estate, Adam has developed his work with large and small commissions, figure studies, portraits and abstract pieces.
At the heart of his work is drawing, whether from the nude with pencil, chisel and stone, clay and knife.
Weight, balance, light and shadow are at the core of the work and fuel the process in the studio. The individual pieces are part of a timeline, an evolving group, the pieces are the resolve, evidence, product of the activity, and 3D sketch book. The figurative fuel the abstract and the abstract fuel the figurative