Craig Stevens was just one of countless thousands of children who grew up with Lego but little did he know at that young age that his favorite building brick would help shape his future. Craig is now a full time professional Lego artist, with many high profile commissions and other projects under his belt. His customers have included Absolute Radio, Friday Night with Jonathan Ross and the Lego Company. He also made a large contribution to James May's Lego House.

It was a visit to a sculpture exhibition at the Croydon Clocktower that sparked Craig's interest in creating life sized sculptures from Lego. As Craig is a firm fan of the band Queen, Freddie Mercury was the perfect choice for the first attempt. Despite not having any formal art qualifications, Craig drew upon all of his experience as an amateur artist and model maker to create a very lifelike representation of the rock superstar. Craig entered the sculpture into the hotly contested arts and crafts competition of the 2005 International Queen Fan Club Convention, where the model won first prize.

The next subject tackled by Craig was Johnny Depp in his Captain Jack Sparrow guise, which upon completion was very well received by the online Lego fan community and has gone on to become very famous.  The sculpture was included in the LAMLradio podcast (A major mouthpiece of the Lego community) highlights of 2008. Speckboy Design Magazine included the Captain Jack in it's article “48 of the Coolest, Stylish and Creative Lego Creations” .

In December 2007, learning of an offer by Virgin radio to swap a sports car for a unique item, Craig offered the Freddie Mercury sculpture. Despite not securing the deal, Craig's offer was memorable enough to lead Virgin Radio to commission Craig to build a Lego bust of William Shatner as a prize for a well publicized competition in February 2008. The sculpture even came to the attention of Mr Shatner himself and was a point of discussion in an online interview with the actor.

In March 2008 the Freddie Mercury sculpture went on to win the national Lego contest organized by the Daily Mirror, which increased Craig's profile yet further. A number of private Lego commissions followed, the most unusual request being to build a life-sized human skull. The "Freddie" sculpture was purchesed by the Hayward Gallery for the prestigious 'View Basket: Art Bought Online' exhibition in September 2008. The sculpture was used by the Hayward gallery to promote the exhibition and photos of "Freddie" have been featured on websites all around the world.

Craig has become very well known for his Lego creations from the Star Wars saga. The first major Lego model that Craig completed was the Millennium Falcon, which made an immediate impact in the Lego fan community.  Craig then turned his attention to the iconic Imperial Shuttle which has yet to be bettered in size and detail.  The next project to be tackled by Craig was a giant model of the Jawa Sandcrawler, which was impressive enough to catch the eye of the Lego Company. Craig was invited to display the model at the official Lego stand at 2007 Star Wars Celebration Europe convention at the Excel Centre London. The public had the opportunity of entering a competition to guess the number of pieces which made up the model. Both The Millennium Falcon, Imperial Shuttle and Sandcrawler were displayed at a number of Lego events, the most prestigious of which was a special display at Legoland Windsor from 25^th October - 8^thNovember 2008. Inspired by this event, Craig was further spurred on to complete his latest and most ambitious project. The Rebel Blockade Runner is certainly a model of giant proportions, at over twelve feet long.

A recent challenge for Craig was to construct a member of the public from Lego. This was particularly challenging because to capture someone's likeness from Lego, who hasn't got a signature look (Such as Freddie's mustache, or Captain Jack's Beard)  is a very difficult task. Still, the resulting sculpture of "James" has shown that Craig can absolutely anyone from Lego, no matter if they are famous or not.

What does the future hold? Well, there are certainly no limits when it comes to Lego.