Sculpture blog — copper art

The Day a Dragonfly Took Flight: Musings of a Copper Whisperer

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The Day a Dragonfly Took Flight: Musings of a Copper Whisperer

The sun streams through the workshop window, casting dancing shadows across the workbench where a half-formed dragonfly awaits its wings. It's not just any dragonfly, though. This one is forged from copper. I'm Shaun, and I'm not your average artist. I don't wield brushes or wield clay. My canvas is copper, my tools a hammer and torch, and my muse – the ever-changing symphony of nature. Each piece I create is a conversation between me and the world around me, a translation of silent whispers into tangible beauty. There's a magic in the way copper moves under my touch, how...

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Now stocked in Artisanity

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Now stocked in Artisanity

You can now find a selection of my work in Artisanity near Congleton. Artisanity.co.uk    

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Copper mines

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We’ve just returned from a trip to Cornwall, and due to my occupation working with copper, I took the opportunity to visit the remains of the Wheal Prosper tin mine and the Wheal Trewavas copper mine where the material used to be mined. Wheal Trewavas is about 1.5 miles west of Porthleven and while only the ruins of the engine houses remain, it’s still an interesting place to visit with the buildings clinging stoically to the edges of the cliffs. In its heyday the mine employed around 160 men until it was eventually flooded and abandoned around 1846.  Copper mines...

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Gladstone Pottery Museum picture

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Gladstone Pottery Museum picture

I was inspired while watching The Great Pottery Throwdown to make a picture of the Gladstone Pottery Museum where the series is filmed, with the iconic bottle kilns that Stoke-on-Trent is famous for. The picture is all copper. Flame coloured on the kilns and buildings and alcohol ink on the copper sheet background.    I’ve also made a piece with copper butterflies painted with alcohol ink that I call ‘The Great Escape’ as one butterfly is outside the frame representing that it’s either escaped or hasn’t yet been pinned to the board. It’s up to the viewer to decide.   ...

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Latest news

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Latest news

I haven’t had a lot of time lately to create much original work, but I’ve been continuing with my bread and butter makes, the bird baths, bee baths, bird feeders and calla lilies. In my spare time I’ve also been experimenting with pyrography, which means writing with fire. Obviously this is totally different to metal sculpture as it involves burning onto wood, but I’m hoping to add it as another string to my creative bow. I find it quite therapeutic to do, even though it takes a long time to create a piece. In other news the Art in the...

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