Here is my display for Ermington Late Night Market tonight, and next Wednesday. 5-7pm I've tried to fit as much as I can on my board! Even though it's a bit squashed I hope people will still be able to appreciate them individually. Next weeks market will be 15th December
The 'Gravy Boat' is sailing away, carring my 'Autumnal News'. If you'd like to receive it, and have not for whatever reason, then send me an email. This is a new piece I've made this year. In June I began developing it, after a recommendation. After drawing, models and trial and error with different materials I arrived at this design. Inspired by the 'Merlin Rocket' sailing boats that race in Salcombe.
Just sharing a post from St. Luke's Facebook page today. Very happy to be featured, as I use a lot of there cutlery/metalware donations in my artwork. Like this cockerel for instance. Made mainly from cutlery and serving trays. This is still one of my favourite sculptures, based on a cockerel in the village where I live. A Welsummer/Buff Sussex.
Click on the photo below to be taken to their Facebook page.
Here he is standing big and tall for the camera, I spent a couple afternoons following him surreptitiously around with a camera, and tape measure! I don't have chickens myself, and it was fascinating watching him and the hens. The hens were really gentle and inquisitive animals, they came right up to me and pecked me if I had anything with metal on. Like my camera case sticking out of my back pocket, which gave me a jump!
I will be on Teignmouth seafront today beside my artwork, with my parasol and deckchair. Ready to talk to anyone interested in the Trail Art UK sculpture trail. I'm looking forward to seeing the other artists. The weather looks good too!
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These are 2 of my recycled metal art sculptures photographed at 'Stone Lane Gardens'. Both sculptures I have tried to capture the beauty of the damselfly and cockerel. I have paid close attention to proportion, symmetry and balance.
I wanted to create a striking sculpture for a pond, (a piece of pond art, this is something I have not seen much of) It is based in a smooth stone, so can be placed on a pond-liner, so the stem appears to come out of the water. It plays to the strengths of metal as a sculptural medium. In that, one can make large delicate looking artwork. Unachievable in other mediums. It uses new stainless steel for the wings, but most else is recycled. My most memorable damselfly memory is swimming in Ermington river during the heat of the day, and observing the electric blue damselfly going about their business above the water.
'Something worth crowing about!' I am pleased the way the cockerel brings a burst of light to the dark foliage of the trees. Both of these sculptures are the result of many hours study, using photos, sketches and working with recycled materials to best capture their forms.
As you may know, I have a sculpture 'The Sphere' at Teignmouth's Trail Art UK 2020, reclaimed sculpture exhibition on the seafront. Each year they give away prize for the 'Public's Choice'. This is the link to their 'voting page' on the Trail Art website, if you would like to take part.
https://www.trailart.co.uk/?page_id=3692
Hot off the press, here is my recycled metal art damselfly, I have designed this to anchor into a rock, so it can be displayed in someone's pond. Stone Lane Gardens will be exhibiting artwork from local artists till the end of October 2020.
This photo does not convey the size of this sculpture, it is fairly large. Roughly 50cm in length, it is made from an assortment of recycled metal. The 'piece de resistance', however is some special Italian 'new' stainless steel, which I have used to create the green wings. I love the way it changes colour from different angles and gives a kick of colour. I am very happy with it.
This idea had evolved from the 'big green dragonfly', I have had the idea of a damselfly resting on a twig in my head for some time, but it wasn't until the other day that it came off. I was going to create another dragonfly, however I thought the body just didn't seem right for a dragonfly, and suited a damselfly. I looked around for something to form it's tail and found the perfect tube of stainless steel, a tent pole or something like that. This is something I'd selected along time ago, from one of my charity shop foragings. I'm so glad I collected it, like so many other pieces of scrap, sometimes they come in very handy.
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| Teignmouth Seafront, Devon |
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| Drawings and templates |
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| Templates and models |
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| My backyard |
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| My local walk |
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| Dartmoor ponies |
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| Coffee and tea with Ermington cockerel 'Wesley' |
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| Me at 'The New Pad' |
