| Displayed here are engine men, women, dogs, cats, mice and some
different birds.     
    
    
These are all made from car, (and some motorbike) parts.
    
    
Often with these, people will send me pictures of their
particular pet and I will make the sculpture to encompass some of
the specific features of their animal. I intend these as garden
sculptures but many people keep them indoors.
    
There is a selection of mouse clocks which are all one-off hand
made. On some of these I have painted either the whole mouse, or
just his eyes. These are made from sheet steel and use ball bearings
as eyes. They contain a simple battery operated clock mechanism and
have a small bracket to aid hanging.
 
There are 3 smaller engine men standing on plinths which were
made as awards for Norfolk Council.
 
I have also made 3 full size engine men which were fixed to
plinths and given as awards by a recycling company called Eastex.
Both of these companies approached me again the next year for
more, similar work.
      
There are also some pictures of the truck I built a few years ago
and the 1960 Ford Prefect which I built more recently for my wife. I
also own a modified 1970 Jaguar XJ6. When I am not doing commissions
and have some free time I like to wrestle with old cars.
     
Since the summer 2008 I have emigrated to Madrid, Spain so it is
more difficult to produce commissions. However I am still interested
in commissions and can still produce work, but not to the kind of
deadlines I used to work to.
The violin which is on the site is one of two which I built. The
specialist “Strings” shop in Hitchin which sold one of these
recently had offered to sell a steel double bass for me if I built
it. Sadly my move to Madrid has currently stopped the manufacture of
this but I still hope to make this some time.
 
The hand made glass petalled flowers are usually sold with a few
flowers in a frame. Customers request the number of flowers, colours
for the glass and whether they want a steel insect, However I have
made singular flowers on a stem which can be put into a flower pot.
These are useable inside or outside and tests have shown they can
cope with English weather only rusting slightly. |
