This larger than life red deer was created as one of a pair commissioned for a large garden where the viewing distance meant that a standard size deer would tend to merge into the surrounding greenery. It stands 2m 30cm high and weighs so much that I couldn't move it to enable me to take a decent photograph. Delivering this pair will have to wait until help is at hand in a week or two's time.
OK, you're right, I'm having a laugh...
Created at the request of a french client who had already bought a Rooster (or should that be a Coq?) this hen is the usual mixture of garden tools including a small mattock for it's tail.
A recent life-size wild boar sculpture created from a wide variety of old agricultural implements and filled with the largest pinecones that I could find.
This is really two sculptures placed together; The last time I made a set like this, someone bought just the nest and I sold the heron to another customer some time later. This set has been created for a local exhibition and may well stay together when it is sold. Ironically, the nest was about twice as much work to make as the heron. in this example, the eggs are boules, but I have used white pebbles in the past, and blown goose eggs would be suitable too.
A photo of a Foal; just for once I have tried to show how it evolved in the next four posts, using whatever I had lying around.
People keep giving me old agricultural implements so that I can use the parts for my sculptures, and these horsedrawn ploughs were no exception. For an experiment, I decided to make something with them, taking photos as I worked, so here goes...
Four plough handles have been used to form the legs of a foal; it's useful here to have a variety of ploughs to work with so that the legs don't all look the same, although one of them had to be extended using a hammerhead, as it wasn't long enough!
In this photo you can see that I have used one of the ploughshears and a couple of rakes in the body of the foal; Not so visible is a shovel as the animal's buttocks.
The finished foal sculpture stands 1m70cm high; since I started taking photos of the construction, I decided to complete it with it's head turned to the left, i.e. away from the camera, but you get the idea! February 2011.
Created for Christmas presents, these deer now live a few miles apart, although they look good as a pair. Maybe one day I will make a herd which can live together at the top of my garden. They'd probably survive longer than their real counterparts if spotted by the local hunters!
Similar to an earlier dragonfly sculpture, the Damsel Fly uses a leaf spring for the abdomen,while the front wings are much lighter and feature chicken wire veins.
This sculpture fixes to a wall via a single metal spike on it's tail.
Similar to the 'Globe', this sculpture stands 1metre 30cm high and uses parts from cart wheels and wine barrels; the ball at the top is a 'boule'.
prawn that I have made; it departs from the usual
Created for a French businessman who travels the world, this is a rare departure from my usual animal subjects.
This sundial uses three metal 'tyres' from cart wheels and includes a fountain at the base.
This view shows roman numerals and fountain rose. Note that it was taken a few minutes after 3PM.
Some leaf springs from an old cart were the inspiration for this dragonfly; the thorax was a small axehead, and the eyes are a pair of rusty boules. Wingspan 1.4m
This life size Retriever was commissioned for a birthday present as a constant reminder of a faithful friend who had recently passed on.
A pair of rusty roosters created to sit on two stone pillars in the hallway of a big house.
Geese are everywhere here in the Perigord, so it's surprising that it's taken me this long to make one. The neck is from a car exhaust, while the breastbone is a framesaw and a pair of hoes make the feet.
