Monday 30 November 2009

Dog with Ball

This playfull little dog has the remains of a bicycle saddle for his head, while his body includes an old animal trap amonst other things. He stands astride a small cannon ball in anticipation of a game.
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Saturday 24 October 2009

Hungry Hound

The backbone of this dog is the main frame from an early ox-drawn plough, and the largest two prong fork form his front legs. His ribs first saw service as a set of shire-horse shoes. He would be the ideal fireside pet if he could only fetch sticks...
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Saturday 26 September 2009

My own Rooster

I thought it was about time I had a rooster of my own, so I made a base from a large wheel which had been salvaged from a sluice gate, added a hollow log and then created a 'boss' rooster to preside over the rest of the animals in the yard. He stands two metres tall and was finished in June 2009.
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Porky Pig

Similar to my wild boar sculptures, the body of this life-size pig has been constructed from a collection of barrel hoops and stuffed with large pinecones.
The front legs and ears are gussets from a harvesting machine, and the buttocks are two shovels. A variety of other farm related tools make up the rest. September 2009
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Saturday 19 September 2009

Drinking deer

A life-size deer commissioned by a lady who is planning to put it at the edge of her garden pond. The ears on this example are created from the trailing blade from an old harrow, it's front leg incorporates the handbrake lever from a 1922 Peugeot
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Friday 28 August 2009

Vulture on a log

This vulture features a wide variety of garden tools in its construction and has been mounted on a cherry log. Created August 2009
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Chouette

A new owl built around a garden fork with scythe blades for wings and spring tynes from a tedding machine for eyes
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Chouette from behind

Rear view of the owl showing harvester blades, window brackets and a pair of scisors
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Tuesday 30 June 2009

Little Bee

My sculptures don't get much smaller than this! The wings on this little bee are made from a pair of ox shoes, the thorax is an old boule, and the 'thighs' are the springs from vine secateurs.
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Monday 29 June 2009

Mozzy

A pair of plough blades and a shovel got me started on my first insect sculpture which looks quite menacing in the gathering twilight
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Honey Bee

In response to a request from a bee keeper I had a go at a honey bee by using a pair of plough blades for wings, a hoe for the head and a shovel and fork for the abdomen. The eyes were created from a pair of solid brass doorhandles.
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Wednesday 10 June 2009

King Coq

Every now and then I find the parts to make a 'de luxe' rooster and this is one example.
This piece is around six feet tall and incorporates many more parts than my usual roosters.The tail includes two scythe blades and four sickles of differing sizes, and rather than mounting him on a wooden post which normally needs to be 'planted' in the garden, I have used the base from a french cafe table which means that he can stand on a patio or be moved from place to place.
June 2009
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King Coq detail

The head uses a pair of secateurs and the chuck from an electric drill along with some sheetmetal torched to the shape of the coq's comb
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King Coq detail

Shows the cast iron cafe table base and feet made from old secateur blades
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Saturday 6 June 2009

Philipine's Coq

A perched rooster the body of which features the metal rings formerly used in the yoke worn by oxen working in the fields nearby. The yoke, which is made of wood, can be seen hanging on the wall above the rooster.
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Jan's bambi

This young deer stands 1m 20cm high and incorporates an houe, serpe, hache, ratteau and forche in it's flank. Alternatively, if you are english, hoe, bilhook, axe, rake and fork.
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Thursday 7 May 2009

Metowl

A barn owl 50cm high, designed to sit on an overhead beam looking down on the world.
This one incorporates two horseshoes in his face and part of an old machinery guard for his chest.
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Thursday 30 April 2009

Mc Vulture

A hungry vulture who has now departed to his a new home...
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Saturday 11 April 2009

Anne's Perched Rooster

This rooster was in response to a request for one in full cry, so I have stretched it's neck and fixed the secateurs used for it's beak in the open position. These changes, along with the use of a wide variety of parts give all my animals their unique identity
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Rusty rooster

A new rooster ready for take-off, Easter 2009
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Vulture on branch

This head and neck from this life size vulture were created from a splitting wedge, shackle and sink trap. The wings are scythe blades and the body is formed with two plough blade tips. It sits on a dead tree branch watching the chickens.
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Katie's Hens

Two different hens which accompany a whole family of my other animals including as you might expect a rusty rooster to look after them.
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Tom's Hens

This hen uses an English sickle and a horseshoe in the construction of it's tail
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Tom's Hens

Each hen in this family has been composed from different items; the tail shown here uses the head from a miniature pick along with a pruning saw
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Tom's Hens

These hens are equipped with a long spike under each foot to enable them to be placed at will on the lawn
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