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I love to create life-size sculptures of British wildlife & birds, using reclaimed tools, capturing their movement in metal.
Once I select the most appropriate piece from my ever growing collection of these wonderful old tools, I shape and weld them together to produce an anatomically accurate form, creating movement, whilst ensuring that each tool remains recognisable and intact.
I always try to showcase the tool’s origins – highlighting any cast maker’s marks or place of manufacture, as well as using their bolts, nuts and handles, incorporating as much of the original tool as possible.
Each completed sculpture is moved outside to allow the elements to encourage a rust patina that is then sealed and finished with a natural and pigmented wax, highlighting the tools original features, whilst preserving its character.
If you are interested in purchasing this piece, or have questions about this sculpture or any others then please email our sales consultant: tadd@cotswoldsculpturepark.co.uk or call Tadd Hartland on 07545 648918
*We are a wholly independent family run business and work closely alongside our artists during the sales process and our buyer introductions. Our ethos is built on a mutual trust and working together.
I love to create life-size sculptures of British wildlife & birds, using reclaimed tools, capturing their movement in metal.
Once I select the most appropriate piece from my ever growing collection of these wonderful old tools, I shape and weld them together to produce an anatomically accurate form, creating movement, whilst ensuring that each tool remains recognisable and intact.
I always try to showcase the tool’s origins – highlighting any cast maker’s marks or place of manufacture, as well as using their bolts, nuts and handles, incorporating as much of the original tool as possible.
Each completed sculpture is moved outside to allow the elements to encourage a rust patina that is then sealed and finished with a natural and pigmented wax, highlighting the tools original features, whilst preserving its character.
If you are interested in purchasing this piece, or have questions about this sculpture or any others then please email our sales consultant: tadd@cotswoldsculpturepark.co.uk or call Tadd Hartland on 07545 648918
*We are a wholly independent family run business and work closely alongside our artists during the sales process and our buyer introductions. Our ethos is built on a mutual trust and working together.
If you are interested in purchasing this piece, or have questions about this sculpture or any others then please email our sales consultant: tadd@cotswoldsculpturepark.co.uk or call Tadd Hartland on 07545 648918
*We are a wholly independent family run business and work closely alongside our artists during the sales process and our buyer introductions. Our ethos is built on a mutual trust and working together.
Indian rainforest brown on a Kilkenny limestone base.
123cm H x 54cm W x 28cm D
Plinth: 50cm H x 50cm W x 50cm D
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*We are a wholly independent family run business and work closely alongside our artists during the sales process and our buyer introductions. Our ethos is built on a mutual trust and working together.
The Great Distraction is a series of contemporary figurative sculptures exploring the tension between human attention and the natural world. The works take the form of hybrid human-animal figures—Minotaurs, ram-like beings, and other mythic forms—rendered in textured ceramic surfaces that evoke earth, erosion, and natural formation.
These figures reference ancient archetypes that were once revered or feared—beings associated with power, instinct, and the forces of nature. They stand grounded and physically present, their forms suggesting strength, weight, and permanence.
Yet within the works, that power appears redirected. The figures turn inward or away, their attention disengaged from the world around them. Rather than embodying dominance or presence, they suggest a quiet relinquishing—an unspoken transfer of agency away from the body and into something unseen.
This contrast lies at the core of the series. The figures remain connected to nature in form, yet disconnected in awareness. What were once godlike embodiments of natural force now appear diminished, not through loss of strength, but through a shift in attention.
The Great Distraction reflects on this condition: a state in which presence is fractured, and power is no longer held within the self, but deferred elsewhere.
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“I can live a long life, as long as I never know my destructive self”.
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Little owl with worm in iron resin & brass on Borewood
165cm by 20cm by 20cm
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A large figurative piece of a man errupting in joy and laugher, enjoying the warm presence of the summer months.
This piece includes the rough texture of the clay that the artist used to sculpt, with finger prints and artists marks still visible, giving the work a sense of energy and movement.
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“The first glimmer of spring…that feeling when you just know we`ve moved out of those cold, damp and dark days that a British winter can bring.” – John O’Connor
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*We are a wholly independent family run business and work closely alongside our artists during the sales process and our buyer introductions. Our ethos is built on a mutual trust working together.