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.

Spider for Stourhead

This is an old iron board about to become a spider in an eight metre wide web that will hang at Stourhead in Wiltshire in the Scraptors sculpture trail throughout September. It will be about to pounce on a trapped insect.

Barn Owl Flying

I have hung up my Barn Owl Flying made from a car fender found while I was walking the dogs. There was a heap of burnt out out car bits. This will be exhibited at Stourhead, Wiltshire in September with other owls by my fellow Scraptors in our sculpture trail round the woods.

Long Necked Bird

I have just completed the Long Necked Bird. Its neck is about four feet long. Busy making new stuff and improving the garden for my opening in the Wylye Valley Art Trail in Wiltshire that runs from May 28th to June 5th 2011.

Medusa reflected in a mirror

I had the idea ages ago of creating a Medusa's Head which one would see first in a mirror. You will recall that Perseus was obliged to cut her head off looking in a mirror to avoid being petrified. I have finally got round to it. This is on the door of a shed in my garden behind bushes. This and a whole lot more will be open in my sculpture mad garden for the Wylye Valley Art Trail in Wiltshire from May 28th to June 5th 2011.

My Frog at Stourhead for photoshoot

With my collaborators the Scraptor Sculptor Group. I took my Frog to Stourhead, the National Trust garden in Wiltshire for a photo shoot. In September it will feature in an exhibition in the woods next to the lake

The Scraptors at Stourhead

I have joined Fiona Campbell, Paul Boswell and Rachel Macelay to form a group which we are calling the Scraptors as we all make sculpture from scrap. We will offer themed landscape trails. This was our photoshoot at Stourhead, the iconic National Trust property in Wiltshire , where we have our first "gig", a sculpture trail in the adjacent woods. Here we pose in heron masks by the Heron made by Paul and Rachel.

Head made from car bits

I made this head with two bits from the fronts of cars, one found beside the road and the other, the tongue, donated by a neighbour who had had a minor crash in his car. The head, thanks to its eyes, has a faintly native North American look to it.

My Frog Moby goes to California

The Internet is a wonderful thing. I made Moby the Frog in 2009 for the Love London Recycled Sculpture Show which I curated at WWT London Wetland Centre. The image is to be used by BCS Recycling Specialists in a brochure being handed out at a medical industry conference in Anaheim California. The frog is covered with dummy mobile phones ones used for dislpay in shops. The mouth is a flipped over TV satellite dish.

A Serpent for Hercules

Work in progress for an Infant Hercules strangling a Serpent to be exhibited in the woods at Stourhead Gardens in Wiltshire in September. The exhibition, in which I will be collaborating with three other artists, will reflect the themes of the classical English romantic garden. This particular piece will pick up on the Classical mythology of the sculptures in the temples dotted around the lake.

Owls Flying

On a windy day my two owls appear to be flying.

Sink Face

This sink came from a nearby building site and easily became a face.

Blue Bird

I have added a blue bird to this tableau as well as the small figure facing the camera. It is rather a sinister bird, some sort of vulture.

Micra Monster

I recycled an old Micra bonnet and two dustbin lids to create this monster on my lawn. The bonnet was irretrievably dented when I drove into a towbar - at very slow speed -at a roundabout.

A man fighting a crocodile

I have recycled some old sculptures and changed them a bit to create this tableau on the wall of a sort of man fighting a sort of crocodile. The crocodile has the gun in its mouth and it is not clear who will win this battle. Perhaps the man has run out of bullets and the crocodile will have him or he will kill the croc.

White Owl

I finished a white owl with a black face to sit near by black owl with a white face.

Man From the Moon

This stands about five feet high and I set it in my garden with woods behind. Made with stuff from the local recycling yard.

Open Day Horseworld Bristol

These show Gilbert Whyman making his Beer Bottle Top Horse which will be covered with beer bottle tops and will be one of the forty odd sculptures on show at the Horseworld Sculpture Show near Bristol from May 23rd to November 1st 2010. He was making it during Open Day at Horseworld a fun day of horse-related and other events.