A recent project here, made for Gaynor Wakeley in South Herefordshire, she was looking to make a feature of a large blank wall on her country cottage, a modern extension on a traditional building. The initial idea was for something to break up the dull looking wall, then after some research Gaynor came up with the idea of basing the wall sculpture around semiabstract drawings of English seedheads based on artwork from her collection. In the end Gaynor came to my studio and did some of the full sized drawings herself.

The individual components of the installation are made using a mixture of  plasma cut silhouettes and fabricated structures. Above is a picture of the completed display taken just after installation on a sunny December morning. I was particularly pleased with the interaction between the shadpws of the sculptures and the trees . The pieces were made with a vague idea of where they would go with final positions being decided on the day, cue lots of running around and decision making.

Below we have a close up shot of the right side of the wall mounted sculptures.

I particularly enjoyed making these as Gaynor was looking for randomness and asymetry which are both things that I usually avoid in my work, so it was good for me try something new.

 It is when the sun comes out that these sculptures really come into their own, with the shadows efectively doubling their depth and scale with the interplay of shadow and object every few minutes as the sun tracks across the sky.

Which gives them an almost three dimensional quality as the light changes during the day.

The Wall Sculptures themselves are made of mild steel, and are mounted about 6" out from the wall using stainless steel mountings to prevent rust streaks on the walls.

Other wall mounted sculptures include a giant Trout for  restaurant. This measures in at around 3 m long, an eye catching feature.

The wall mounyed sculptures shown here were all made to commission for specific sites, I am happy to make similar piecs to customers needs or to think about any other projects to go on a wall or vertical surface.

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