Through this website I am sharing the history and my interpretation of the art.

I was born in Hobart in 1949, the great great-grandchild of Thomas Herbert, a convict who was a quarryman in the Ross Bridge road party.  

I went to the medical school at the University of Tasmania in 1967 and practised as a general practitioner until my retirement in 2019.

I had gone to the School of Art, majoring in sculpture in 2011, while I was working in the midlands, travelling between Oatlands and Campbell Town, crossing and stopping by the Ross Bridge rather than bypassing the town. My family had picnicked there during my childhood and, later, we owned the book written by Norman Laird and Leslie Greener, Ross Bridge and the Sculpture of Daniel Herbert, published in 1970 by Fullers in Hobart. Thus the threads came together that ultimately immersed me in research and writing about the bridge, its art, its characters, its place in Tasmania’s history and its enigma.

Because, it seems, there are no records referring to the carvings themselves, or to the stone carvers, the writing has taken on a character of its own.