Welcome to CopperCreatures 2025
Open now: the Pilgrims Way Artists Summer Exhibition, in the huge and magnificent Tithe Barn and grounds at Lenham near Maidstone. Open from May 16th – 26th, 10am to 5pm.
I have put lots of pieces there this year – there is a large lawn just outside the tithe barn – so if you’d like to see a good wide-ranging selection of my outdoor work, do take the opportunity to visit. Everything is for sale.
Coming soon: Godinton House, Ashford
From Saturday 12th July to Sunday 3rd August, this is always a thought-provoking collection of outdoor sculpture in a fine country house setting.
Below: open NOW, at Delamore House in Devon, one of my giant Barley stalks (2 metres tall) frames the stag trio, against the noble background of this magnificent Victorian house. The exhibition runs through until the end of May; do catch it if you can.
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New work!
My Basset Heart was a comission, but the subject is dear to my own heart (having two) and I shall be happy to make more for any more mad Basset people out there.
The heart is 40cm across, and it is priced at £145.
Gold Medal!!! What an honour to be part of this beautiful stand by Lou and Steven Edney from The No Name Nursery. Find more about them HERE.
I love how the planting and sculpture enhance each other and tell a story. My elephant is emerging through the varied shapes of their foliage plants.
A new design for an old favourite, my small heart sculpture. At only 6 inches across it’s tricky getting enough detail while still keeping visual space to make it look delicate and uncluttered. I’m very pleased with the finished design, and I think they’ll make great wedding, anniversary or birthday gifts.
Fabulous Fox spotted at Delamore in their spring exhibition 2024 – this one is sold but I have another, newly made, available.
I make sculptures of animals, plants and occasionally other things, from recycled copper: old hot-water cylinders for sheet which is shaped into butterfly wings and elephant’s flanks, pipe of different thicknesses for legs and stems, wire for whiskers and manes and antennae. Copper never rusts, and can be shaped by beating and coloured by heating and quenching. Where pieces are coloured, I lacquer them so that the colour is fixed. The sculptures will therefore be fine outdoors or inside. Do please roam through my website and see if any of the work attracts you. In twenty-two years of making, there is a lot to see. I suggest you start at the Full Gallery, but there is also a menu to the other pages.
Incredibly proud to have been asked to create this hop bine in memory of a wonderful and vivacious person. The family also wanted it in honour of the dedication and compassion of the staff of the Critical Care Unit at Conquest Hospital, Hastings.
It is now installed in the sensory garden the hospital have created outside the unit. I hope this sculpture brings a smile to staff, patients & their families.
There are more hop bine examples in my Plants and Flowers gallery.
A new work to welcome in the spring: a simple branch with tiny delicate blossom, and further buds just showing colour. This piece is intended for wall-mounting and is about 90cm long. Only the blossom is lacquered, so the copper of the branch will deepen to a rich darker brown in time.
Do you know a fisherman who needs a trophy?
I have made the Brown Trout before, but when commissioned to make this one last year I was particularly pleased with the way he turned out. They are always a little different, and this fellow seems just a shade more solid and self-important: the lord of his section of river. The copper colouring (just through heating, to bring out the irridescent sheen – no chemicals) suits the fish perfectly.
Pow! The Lionfish is an exuberant showman. This was a recent commission, and I was delighted to be asked to make one – it has everything: stripes, spots, spines and ridiculous floating feathery fins. He is life-size.
My bird feeders, designed to complement the water-lily birdbath. I have made three sizes: the largest, seen in the main picture above, is a mad extravagance and needs a large garden space. Also shown is the smallest and simplest, with a close-up detail showing the flower. There are more pictures in the ‘Pond and Garden’ subject gallery.
Do visit the MAIN GALLERY page – I love how well it works. I have recently added several new collections of photographs. You can click on any image to see information about the price and sizes, and click AGAIN to see a maximum-resolution image.
If you’re looking for anything in particular, there is a SEARCH button on the menu.
