Video: Horseshoe sculptures by Tom Hill
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
An ordinary horse shoe has always been a symbol of happiness. Finding her is a good omen. Hanging over the door - to provide good luck to all the inhabitants of the house … And to use horseshoes as a material for creating sculptures? It must be very good too, because the author of this idea, Tom Hill, is very popular in his native England.
Tom Hill is a talented 24-year-old self-taught sculptor who has been creating animal sculptures from used horseshoes for four years. Among the sculptures by Tom Hill are images of the most diverse representatives of the animal world. Here you can find porcupines, squirrels, ducks, herons, swans, pigs, hares, badgers, dogs, lions, cheetahs, deer, camels, elephants - all life-size, of course.
As a means for creating his sculptures, Tom uses the usual tools of a blacksmith: forge, anvil, hammer, as well as various welding techniques to heat the horseshoes, give them the desired shape and join into a whole.
The largest work of Tom Hill is the arch, which is 9 meters wide, in the form of two elephants. The sculptor made it to order for Lady Salisbury in 2006, and now the arch is in the garden of Hatfield House. Each animal weighs about a third of a ton and is made up of over a thousand horseshoes.
The idea to create sculptures from horseshoes came up unexpectedly to Tom. At first, he just wanted to make a horse model as a gift to his parents, but then he got so carried away that by now there are about thirty works in his portfolio. Most of them are sold in England, as well as in Italy and Ireland. I wonder if buyers buy Tom Hill's works only to decorate their garden, or deep down they hope to lure luck in this way?
The sculptor dreams of creating an 18-meter figure of a rearing horse, and is looking for a place where he could implement this idea.
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