Sculptor. He was raised in Derbyshire and started his professional life in advertising. It was seeing Ken Russell’s film about Gaudier Brzeska, The Savage Messiah, which gave him the urge to become a sculptor. However, it was not until the mid-1990s that he left London to attend a stone-carving course in Weymouth. He then spent two years working with Portland stonemasons. He now has a studio in Dorset and runs his own stone-carving courses. Chapman has also worked in recycled wood, using a chain-saw to create a sculpture of a shire horse, entitled Agnes, which is now in the Dorset County Hospital. His Mother and Child is in the Royal College of Midwives in London.