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May 18th 2017 So a shorter post I feel, at least for now and as promised a few images of what Heather has been creating in between potting, gardening, mowing lawns and dodging rain.  Yes tis the season for rain and so far this month there have been two roof frosts.  Well roof ice- ups might be more correct where nothing is obviously visible unless you have suspicious eyes, and are tall enough to reach up and feel the hard water ice skin with built in bubblets. So to start with we share a piece that has been around for a while now that demonstrates how easy it can be to form striking installations with whatever is at hand, in this case a grouping centred around a pot, leaves, bits, and 3 iron rods. The leaves are off a Magnolia Grandiflora and can last for years should you be too busy to replace periodically.  More effective than the photo suggests these 3 “stacks” will happily sit there for 2 or 3 years while still looking good.

The next could be called “Great Balls of Wire” a barbed expression based around an idea of a ball in steel and mesh that has been sitting all forlorn under the fig tree.  Once wrapped, but not finished, some stray passing kid tried to roll it........ sigh. I mean at 1.7 meters in diameter, heavy as, and covered with spikes, spikes I had already blooded as I obeyed “her that must be obeyed” in it’s construction.  Anyway visions of runaway balls with kid spread eagled and leaving bloody prints down the lawn......... Heather is not keen on blood.

Now let us continue with something more manly, well sort of, but what else does a Heather do with used manikins? .....no don’t answer that i don’t want to know.  At least these are rather tasteful, well sort of :-)

East to West Sweeps Best

Now in this next image there is a wonder as to what the story is.  It would seem that one could be guarding the other for some reason, and the green lady, (one of a pair), is waiting for clothes and a place on the Sculpture Walk with others of her kind.

Okay then that will do for now, I am hoping for the next instalment before the end of the month with more new stuff including a work Heather is creating to very nicely compliment a new stone sculpture gallery.  It is being created as an area to feature Dragons and is almost ready for it’s first sculptures, mind you they will have to be sculpted first and that will take a month or two.  Meantime as it has been created under the trees we are waiting for an autumn oaken leaf fall for a definitive photo to share with you. ____________________ Right some progress can now be demonstrated with the completion of the Dragon’s Nest by Heather, also now as i write, in the oven is a clutch of eggs, Dragons Eggs  of course, sort of a potters version of a “Bun in the Oven” maybe........ :-) We have no idea as to how they will look because the kiln is too hot to crack open. We are quietly hoping the extreme heat of firing, (up in the Dragon prefered range) has not caused any of the eggs to hatch, one dragon around the place is enough i feel :-) However below is a picture of the nest and then a series of images into the new Dragon Gallery area.  In many ways the new gallery is still a bit raw and we are awaiting the Oak Tree above to do it’s thing and drop leaves everywhere to “soften” it all up visually speaking.  It goes without saying there are many months of sculpting ahead to fill the gallery with Dragonish sculptures