The sculptor, who grew up in the Wednesfield area, told BBC Radio WM: “I’ve trained my nervous system, I can work between my heartbeats, I have 1.5 seconds to move between the beats, I can slow my heart down.
“As soon as my pulse stops, I learned to sculpt between the beats. It’s something that I just evolved into doing and I use my eyelash as a paintbrush.
“The smallest one I did was Shakespeare inside a hair. I couldn’t paint it with an eyelash, so I had to paint it with a piece of dust.”
Diagnosed as autistic aged 50, the artist said reading and writing did not come naturally to him but his challenges had led to him discovering his hidden talent.