At last I have started to go through those photos of work that never made it to the blog. Here is a selection from 2022 and 2023, summer local art trail and the village light festival

First out is Gustav, inspiration came from a photo of a group of blacksmiths working in the village at the beginning of the last century. Made out of chicken wire mesh, metal netting and reflective tape, he stands on a cloud of chicken wire mesh with small squares of reflective tape stuck to it.

The images above are a selction from the village Light Festival – on for one day only at the beginning of November. So dark by 5 pm, cold and usually raining. Materials vary, some my trusted chicken wire with reflective tape, some are glass jars covered with cellophane with tea candles inside and some are more up-to-date with LED lights covered with cellophane in different colours.

A selection of installations from the last three summers’ village art trail. The two large creatures are about 3 m long and 2 m high. The bespectabled ‘hen’ has a covering of empty coffee bags (kindly collected by friends) and cut-up re-inforced plastic used for scaffold wrapping. The more discreet ‘rat’ is covered with birch twigs from already felled trees. The white seat with a bus stop sign is a comment on the council cancelling the bus service to the village. The sign says The Art Traffic with the stop named Inspiration. The cool ‘bird’ is wearing a pair of glasses that I found when digging in the kitchen garden.