Owl in tree in my field

Eyecatcher in my sculpturemad garden

A Barn Owl

A barn owl in Birdhenge see www.birdhengetrailwiltshire.blogspot.co.uk The owl is made from an old TV dish and the wings from car insides.

Skull and bones

Dave and the peewit in my sculpture mad garden

Five years ago I found myself unable to access my own blog but by some mysterious process I can again. This is my dog and my peewit aka lapwing in my garden. Decades ago there used to be large flocks of peewits in Wiltshire but alas no more. They had a haunting cry, As a schoolboy I rescued an injured peewit and released it back with a large flock when it had recovered.

Sculpture at Venaria Reale near Turin

 Two pieces by Giuseppe Penone a the Venaria Reale near Turin. On the upper one a fingerprint appears on the water every few seconds. Set in restored formal garden of the Versailles type.

Espacio Gallery Eclectica Exhibition off Brick Lane London August 2012

I got out my shears and sculpted this box bush into a head for the Box and Gorse Monster in my garden. Behind is the Yew Monster which  I made ten years ago or so from an old yew hedge planted in 1926.

Blue and White Head

I used the remains of two old rusty buckets for this head and shoulders which stands about three feet high, one for the shoulders and one for the face.

New Mushrooms for my garden

I made some mushrooms for the Scraptors exhibition at Stourhead last autumn and decided I would like some for my own garden. The stems are flue piping used for chimneys. the nearer ones are topped with bits of a barbecue and the further ones with stainless steel industrial lamp shades.

Morphy Richards vacuum cleaner to morph as sculpture

This is the remains of my new Morphy Richards vacuum cleaner which I will use as a head for a sculpture of a humanoid as it is suitably anthropomorphic. It is useless as a vacuum cleaner because the tube for conveying the dust to the cylinder curves inside the head and is therefore impossible to clear if it gets blocked which it will do sooner or later. I tried wrangling with Kand Co who sold it to me. They passed me on to Morphy Richards who told me to unblock it with wire. Believe me it is impossible. So Morphy will have to morph. It makes a good head for one of a little tribe of humanoids I will be making for a sculpture trail with my fellow artists of the Scraptor Sculpture Group at the Magdalen Project n 2012.

The Joust by Moonlight

A very mild winter with my first daffodil and aconites out about a month early. Even the moonlit nights are not frosty. This is the Joust in my sculpturemad garden lit by the moon.

My sculpture mad garden by moonlight

I thought I would try and take some photos on a bright moonlit night. Very difficult as I could not t see any image in my camera and just had to point and hope for the best. The body of the egret was the petrol tank of motorbike.

Sculpture an National Botanic Garden Dublin

Interesting sculpture exhibition in the National Botanic Gardens Dublin. On until end of October.

Egret comes home

My Egret has come come home from the Scraptors Sculpture Trail at Stourhead. There it was in a large pond. In my garden it has to make do with a smaller one. The body was the petrol tank of a motorbike.

Goodbye Stourhead and the Summer

After a long Indian summer the leaves fall on the water round my Egret and it is time for the Beyond the Garden Gate sculpture trail of the Scraptors Sculpture Group to leave. We packed it all up yesterday with the help of an army of National Trust machines and helpers.

Stoberry Park Wells

This is the view from Stoberry Park of Wells Cathedral and Glastonbury Tor. The garden with sculpture is open for another week as part of Somerset Arts Weeks. I lay on the grass to take this image of one by Ian Marlow.

Rainbow over my Procession

I have been adding to the Procession in my Field. An old wheelbarrow became another creature on the far left and a ventilation shaft a tall figure. I rushed out in a shower to catch the rainbow.

Ventilation shaft transformed

I was given this ventilation shaft. It has become a Figure with the addition of eyes. I have placed it with a Centaur in my procession in my field..

The Scraptor Sculpture Trail at Stourhead

The Scraptors are resting a bit after installing a sculpture trail at Stourhead, the National Trust property in Wiltshire. Above my Hercules and Serpent . The Ancient Greek Boy Wonder dispatched them from his infancy. Below The Eye a joint work with my fellow Scraptor Paul Boswell. On the tree trunk a Chameleon by Scraptor Fiona Campbell. The trail continues through September.