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.

Mc Vulture

A hungry vulture who has now departed to his a new home...

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

Rusty rooster

A new rooster ready for take-off, Easter 2009

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.

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.

Tom's Hens

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

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

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

Tom's Hens

One of a flock of hens, this one uses a leaf spring from a trailer and a trowel in it's tail

Roe Deer

A closer view of the deer below

Kevin's deer

A life size buck which has a pair of pliers for antlers, ox shoes for ears and a selection of garden tools in the body, including a scythe, secateurs, several hoes, a small axe head and a rake. This one lives at Segalas in the Lot et Garonne

Jane's Boar

A hefty wild boar created from old farmyard parts including barrel hoops, ox shoes, billhooks and harrow tines. It has been stuffed with large pinecones and weighs 85kgs.
March 2009

Little fawn

At 1metre 10cm high, this sculpture of a young deer is smaller and lighter than most of the deer that I have made; this was simply to make transport less of a problem for shipping abroad. Practical considerations like this have become an essential part of the design of my sculptures, but at least they are robust enough to withstand rough handling.

Jean's Crane

Here in the Dordogne we are situated under the flightpath of several hundred cranes as they migrate in the spring and autumn. This one however, stays put in Jean's garden in all weathers. Height 140cm.

Bambi

This life size fawn was created from a wide variety of garden tools including hoes, rakes, axe heads and bilhooks. 2008

Brooding Vulture

A vulture which uses two old plough blades for the body, two scythe blades for wings, a sink trap for the neck and beak from an old harvester.

Vulture detail

Feeding Rooster

Created in 2008, using a wide variety of garden tools, this
rusty rooster is a little larger than life-size and was
designed to stand in an open fireplace during the
summer months.

Small Heron

This small was heron designed to stand amongst reeds at the edge of a pond
watching over the goldfish below...I'm not sure how happy the goldfish are to see it,
but it's rather less of a threat to them than the real thing! 2009

Begging Bear

This bear has a soup ladle for it's begging bowl, and a small frying pan for it's belly. It was a built for a lady who has quite a collection of bears, so it should feel quite at home with her. Created 2009.

Begging Bear 2

Detail of the bear's face, showing amongst other things the remains of a bicycle saddle, chainwheel and shutter hinges

Osprey

This osprey sculpture, pictured on a frosty morning was
created for a 40th birthday present. The flight feathers are
blades from a rotorvator, the tail is an axe head and there are parts from a mowing machine as well as a rake in the wings. Built 2008

Giant Rooster

By using the largest examples of garden tools I could find, this rooster
is about twice life size, and stands on top of the cast iron base of a cafe table.
The axe head used for it's neck and the fork legs are from the early part of the 18th century, while the rings which form the body came from the wooden wheel hubs on an ox cart which had rotted away. A selection of sickles and a scythe blade were used for the tail feathers. Created 2008

Deer Heads

These 'faux trophies' were created to adorn the walls of a large house whose owner was not a fan of hunting and prefered to keep the local game alive. A variety of agricultural implements and some cauldron handles were used in thier construction.