Grasshopper - part 3

The head is more bits of jack.

building the grasshopper - part 2

No real studio time this week, so he we are with a half made grasshopper. Mostly old scaffold and huge trolley jack.

Art in the Pen, Skipton

Back from a busy weekend at the Skipton event. Always a good event with a nice atmosphere, and nice folk all round. Weather was 'interesting' but the real heavy rain came during the day - and we stayed mostly dry on a quick walk out to Malham Cove during the evening.

Always nice to bring less back than I took, but why can I never pack the van as well to return?

Strawberry Fields Grasshopper

Last Monday me and my assistant from the Sir John Moore Foundation started worked. We looked in the skip and took what we liked the look of. Everything has to start somewhere, and this is how the insect was born.

Strawberry Fields Festival Sculpture

Well fingers crossed - next week I hope to be on site at the Strawberry Fields Festival during the build up. Me and young assistant working hard to design and fabricate a large sculpture, using the scrap the farm has collected over the year. We've got a whole 3 and a 1/2 days of work to do this. What can possibly go wrong?!