Roger Stephens is a sculptor based in Wiltshire.

Artist’s statement

I have been carving stone since I was eleven years old when introduced to lumps of alabaster at school. 

After qualifying as a stone mason, I worked at Salisbury Cathedral on the Spire and West Front during the Major Repair Programme and many churches and buildings in surrounding counties.  While there I pursued my passion for contemporary sculpture and organising sculpture exhibitions. 

My early sculptures were concerned with nature and how outside influences can have on plants and animals.  Later a shift in emphasis towards politics and how and why decisions are made and what the results of these can lead to. 

I have always been concerned with line and form, studying Henry Moore, Constantin Brancusi and Isamu Noguchi.  From the original idea, I pare it back to its simplest form.  Wherever my ideas come from, be it nature, industry, politics, literature, music, I endeavour to imbue the piece with the essence of my original idea.   

All my work is in stone with a few works cast in bronze. 

After many years as owner of a craft supplies shop, I trained at Weymouth College in Architectural Stone Masonry and Carving where I was awarded the City and Guilds Advanced Craft Diploma with Distinction. 

In 2015 I was accepted as a Member of The Royal Society of Sculptors. 

Since 1996 I have exhibited in galleries in England and abroad. 

Notable Exhibitions

September 2025, “One Island-Many Visions”.  RSS Exhibition & Symposium, Portland, Dorset. 

Atkinson Gallery, Millfield Summer Show,  Prize  winner 

Wiltshire Open Exhibition,  Prize winner  

“Liminality, Towards the Unknown Region”.  Salisbury Cathedral 

Wildlife Artist of the Year exhibition, Mall Galleries, London 

“Aspects of Conflict”.  Solo show, The Young Gallery, Salisbury 

The Garden Gallery.  Every year between 1999-2020 

Sculpture in Paradise, Chichester Cathedral 

Discerning Eye,  Prize winner 

Himalayan Garden and Sculpture Park, Ripon 

Cadogan Contemporary, London 

“Together We Rise”, Chichester Cathedral 

Royal West of England Academy 

Messums Fine Art, Tisbury 

Salle du Parc, Barneville-Carteret, France  

Significant Commissions and work in the Public Domain

Carved Paterae and Garlands, Triumphal Arch, Wilton House. Civic Society Award 

Three Granite seats, Porter’s Garden, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. Onyx Award 

Four Wayside Stone Seats, Broughton.  Best Street Furniture Award 

Cartouche in Ham Hill stone, Taylors Alms-Houses, Salisbury. Lady Radnor Award 

Two Sandstone Acorns, Knowle Park, Eastleigh. 

“Demeter”. Marble sculpture. Horton Halls, St Georges University of London. 

“St Peter, Fisher of Men”, Portland Limestone.  St Peters Primary School, Winchester. 

“Looking Through the Past to the Future”.  Winchester University. 

Memorial Seat, Church of St Cross, Winchester.