Alf Friend is a self-taught artist and sculptor working in different mediums and materials. His travels in the Far East and Japan have led to an interest in Zen philosophy, painting and particularly Japanese art and design.

Alf Friend calls his present work the Yohaku series. Yohaku is a Japanese word meaning white space and is the Japanese way of achieving balance by pairing incompatible objects.

White space provides a background that emphasises whatever it surrounds and will focus the observers attention. By combining painting and sculpture Alf Friend creates these wall hanging assemblages. The materials used are varied including wood, metal, string and plaster and the paints are acrylics.

He has exhibited mainly in the South of England.