Dufort's maternal grandmother Doris de Halpert, an artist who had studied under Walter Sickert, gave him lessons in drawing and painting.
[3] Dufort's works include the following: An over-life size bronze statue of a bowler, at Lord's Cricket Ground in London, commissioned by the MCC, was unveiled in 2002.
The over life-size bronze statue, on a rock plinth, shows a kneeling coal miner testing for methane gas.
[1][5][6] Baroness Margaret Thatcher unveiled an over life-size bronze statue of herself, in the Members' Lobby of the Palace of Westminster, London, in 2007.
It is a memorial marking the rescue of 182 miners from Waterloo Colliery in 1949, and was commissioned by Forest of Dean District Council and Cinderford Labour Party.