Driftwood Horses

Heather Jansch makes horses out of driftwood. Driftwood. Lovely, lovely junk from the sea. She explains:

"I was tired of following in other peoples footsteps. I had been working with copper wire and the sculptures were like Da Vinci’s line drawings but lacked the power I wanted. One day I while I was out my son could not find any kindling wood to light the wood-burner and had chopped up a piece of ivy that had grown round a fencing stake, he had left behind a short section that I immediately saw as a horse's torso of the right size to fit straight into the copper wire piece I was working on. The next question was where could I find more or similar shapes and the answer was of course driftwood."

Need I say more?



from Bernie DeKoven, funsmith