Farnham grew up in Hertfordshire, virtually next door to Henry Moore, became his assistant in 1965 and still works for The Henry Moore Foundation today.

Farnham's works are mainly about detail: some small carefully considered section of the human figure is isolated and placed in an unexpected context, sometimes overtly figurative, more often reinterpreted as natural form or landscape.

The works in this exhibition at the Art & Design Gallery, Hatfield showed a range of Farnham's interests with an emphasis on depictions of hands, a subject he has returned to time and again over the last thirty years.

He achieved a delicate balance between form and subject matter with a clear fascination for texture. His finishes varied from coarseness to high polish and focused on the touch and flow of the object.