Turkey

Quite a change from making roosters, almost every part on ths turkey needed to be completely different from those used on it's cousin!

Patti's coq

Another rusty rooster, the rings used for the body on this one were found on the hub of a very rotten cart wheel, his wings are bill hooks

Large rusty rooster

I have made dozens of roosters of all shapes and sizes; this one is about as big as they get. Check out the neck- it's made from a 300 year old axe head, the tail feathers are mostly sickles, and the beak is a pair of vintage secateurs.

Vulture

This one uses a mason's hammer and shackle for the head, sink trap for the neck, scythe blades for wings, and plough blades for the body. Built 2008

Prue's Vulture

This, the first of many vultures uses the leading edge of a horse-drawn mower arm for it's head; various fork prongs, knives and the irons from an
ox-yoke form most of the rest. 2006

Jen's Eagle

This eagle was created largely from the parts of an old mowing machine, though the tail is from an axe.

Two barn owls

Over the last few years I have been asked to make quite a number of owls,
and here are a couple of examples. The starting point for their faces is a pair of horse shoes, and they have scythe blades for wings. From that point on I have used garden forks or spades, and mower blades of one sort or another to simulate feathers; whatever comes to hand at the time.

Eagle seat

This was quite a chalenging sculpture from an engineering point of view, as I wanted to create a garden seat for four people but at the same time have only a single support where the eagle's tallons met the ground. The supporting framework was to be set into the ground below with concrete.
The obvious choice for the seats were those found on tractors, and it soon became clear that finding four matching examples would be another challenge, and moving the structure to it's new home yet another, as it weighs in at around 400kgs!

Turtle

A tractor seat forms the main part of this wall sculpture,
which also uses a large spoon for the head, scythe blades
and ox-shoes for the limbs

Patrick's Donkey

My first small donkey sculpture used a pair of pliers, ox-shoes
and a drawer handle as a tail. the front legs are the two halves of
a pair of vine secateurs. 2005

Little donkey

This tiny sculpture was created from a pair of vintage ox-shoes,
a pair of secateurs and a hammer-head in 2007

Ironmongrel

The remains of the seat from a dumped moped found in the woods behind my house was the inspiration for this dog.

Justin's King Prawn

A simple crustacian formed from an old moped silencer, a spoon and the tines from a tedding machine in 2006.

Goat's Head

Reminiscent of the egyptian Isis this simple wall ornament was created in 2006 from the foot of a cast-iron bath and a two pronged garden fork

Grazing sheep

A life-size sheep that now lives in Lincolnshire. The head consists of three hoes, and the woolly coat has been represented by old harness chains from ploughs drawn by oxen.

Half-size Boar and piglets

A compact boar with two little'uns
who now reside in a garden with several more of my animals. The body of the boar is made from metal bands from an old wine barrel and filled with large pine cones. In wet weather the pine cones shrink, giving the boar a hungry look...conversely, in dry weather it's stuffed! The piglets are based on old horse shoes.

Boar and Rooster

A life-size wild boar pictured here with a rather straggly rooster mounted on a post

Colleen's Cat

A life-size cat whose face was created from an old ladle