Robin Redbreast - Gift

"Gaspard"

Commissioned present for Gaspard. Copper fish, stainless steel mirror and printer's wooden block. Curly seaweed shows Gaspard's hair.

"Jules"

Commissioned present for Jules. Copper fish, stainless steel mirror and printer's wooden block. Curly seaweed shows Jules' hair.

Annie's Cock

I made this for the friend who commissioned "Raffa'. It is made from a piece of driftwood with a comb and tail made from a plastic kitchen cutting-up board. It is mounted on an old surveyor's peg. 450 high. Gift

Zipper

Whimsical bird - driftwood with copper seaweed. 250 high.

Red breast

Scrap of wood with copper beak and tail, mounted on a native seed pod. 350 high.

Blue Bird - Gift

Wooden chip with copper tail. Mounted on driftwood. 350 high.

Eagle Head

Made of a random piece of wood with a copper comb coloured with the oxy torch. Mounted on an off-cut of recycled baltic pine. 400 high

Whale

This piece of driftwood was already shaped like a whale with its mouth open. It has copper fins and a bone for its tail.

High Bird

Made of a piece of driftwood with a copper tail and fins and a kid's marble for its head. It is mounted on a piece of driftwood. 450 high

High Bird detail

Cape Barren Goose

Made from a bit of rusty steel - painted to show the basic colours of a Cape Barren Goose. Mounted on a piece of driftwood with old sea grass. 220 high

Butterfly - Gift

Made from copper coloured with patina chemicals.

3 Magpies

3 magpies in a variety of poses. Made from cut-out copper painted and mounted on an old piece of gum tree, 200high x 500 long

Ripper Fish

This piece of driftwood was made for a mad fish. The mouth is a piece of copper strap, the side fins and tail are copper and the back fins are cut from a plastic kitchen cutting-up board. It is mounted on driftwood. 350 high.

On The Wing - Gift

Made for my Goddaughter's 40th birthday. Made from a random piece of wood and a copper wing. It is mounted on a piece of scrap marble from the 'Carving Dreams in Stone' Adelaide Hills 2014 International Sculpture Symposium. 300 high

Swamp Hen - Gift

Made from an old piece of rusty iron. Painted and mounted on a base with copper grass. 220 high

Breaching Whale

This is one of my favourites. It is a piece of landscape mulch I found beside a footpath that 1000s of people may have walked along. They saw it as mulch - I saw it as a breaching whale. It is mounted on a piece of red gum root. I used this an an example of 'potential' when i spoke to the year 10 students at a local college. 250 high.

Anyone for golf? - Gift

A present made of an old Mashie Niblick mounted on a cast iron shoe last with golf spits and tees for laces. 400 high.

Banjo's Surfboard - Gift

This board is made of a piece of driftwood lovingly shaped, sanded and coloured by my Goddaughter's son Banjo aged 6. I added the fin and mounting. 250 high.

Guinea Fowl - Gift

made of copper sheet, coloured with 'liver' patens and painted. The legs are copper tube bad wire. 200 high.

Red Bill - Gift

Another piece of random wood that suggested a bird in flight. The tail and wings are copper, the beak is a scrap of red plastic. 300 high

MOOSE

This is one of a few welded scrap pieces. It is made from an old steel window frame, rusty galvanised iron, 2 farm rakes and part of a plough. It is meant to look like a moose! 750 x 750

BEE SMOKERS

A friend and I made those 2 bee smokers modelled on the traditional shape. I made all the copper bits and he made the bellows.