The artwork below represents a selection of the commissions undertaken for clients. Each piece is a one off and we can work from supplied photographs, drawings, motifs etc. Our manufacturing techniques and high standards of materials and craftsmanship are evident in every commission produced.
Place your cursor over the picture to see the commission photos and click on the image to see the finished artwork in all its glory.
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A good photograph of a beautiful, old Rolls Royce enabled me to make this large and intricate weathervane. |
Photograph of collie and the design sketch emailed for customer approval. |
A horse and trap supplied photograph allowed me to produce this horse and trap weathervane. |
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Pet photographs in all shapes and sizes enable me to create portraits of them on weathervanes or signs. |
Ex submariner's wife supplied me with this old photograph of the submarine he served on and commissioned me to make a suprise retirement present for him. |
The village church and the village farm house sign.
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Large Scottish pub sign with a great name and the sign in position by the bonnie bonnie banks 'o Loch Lomond. |
Antique weathervane before and after restoration. |
Last years Tate Gallery Christmas tree designed by Gary Hulme decorated with Black Forge Art blackbirds. |
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Pub menu and a good logo enabled me to make an appropriate sign. |
Supplied publicity flyer for Scottish fishing Loch - and the sign I made for it
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Photograph supplied by wife to immortalise her husbamd on a weathervane for his birthday. He later thanked me for giving him a less double chinned profile! |
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This lady bred Weimeranas and commissioned this sign for her kennels. |
Supplied photograph of Elkhound,
and final weathervane |
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Riding school business card with very effective simple logo, enabled me to make this similarly effective but simple sign. |
Another business card with an effective logo and another effective sign. |
Vets logo and the proposed sign. |
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Old tractor, farmer and collie weathervane designed from the supplied photograph. |
Retirement weathervane produced from an photograph of the farmer and his brother showing an early interest in tractors. |
This farmer's wife said her husband was into his John Deer tractors so she commissioned this sign for the farm as a suprise present. |
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Austin 7 Model photo emailed by car restorer and the supplied design sketch for his approval. |
Supplied photograph of customer's traction engine and the sign I made for their farm. |
This farmer's wife sent me her husband's toy tractor so I could make a sign for the farm |
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A biplane weathervane created from the supplied photograph of the biplane. |
Chalet Lizzie and the supplied photograph Lizzie supplied of her chalet. |
Supplied photograph of the new, old house - and a new sign for the old house |
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This customer apparently spent the morning chasing her Alpacas around the field with a digital camera. So I first supplied a design sketch for the customer's approval. |
French business card for a shop selling smoked hams with a very complex logo and my shop sign for which I also received a few smoked hams! |
Proposed Samurai on horse designed from photograph of Japanese. |
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Supplied photograph of customer's racing yacht - and resulting weathervane |
The family yacht and the family weathervane
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Picasso's "Two Women Running on a Beach" 1922,
and my weathervane interpretation
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Prize winning ram, and farm sign
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Jacobs sheep and Rowan trees sign for the farm used several pictures of Jacobs sheep supplied by a Scottish farm. |
An invitation to visit and photograph this farmer's rare white cattle resulted in this weathervane. (The centre of the cow is hollow to create a white animal).
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Lovingly restored vintage car
and weathervane to celebrate |
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Lady's husband used to fly Buccaneers in the Navy
so she supplied me with his treasured airfix model to make a weathervane
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New house and a new sign for the new house. |
Customer on his Bonnie dreaming of Scotch Corner and Salt Flats - now on the garage roof. |
The marital horse and carriage
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An unusual request from a guitarist which worked well,
with the neck dispensing with the need for an arrow |
Even more unusual - a sign worked from my taking a photograph of this man's tattoo at a show |
Large weathervane 6ft wide installed by us and overlooking London |
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Mary Poppins |
Snoopy stock car from customer's photograph. |
Wind turbine. |
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Weathervane commissioned by a bookeeper. |
Customer's Jack Russel from supplied photograph. |
Garden spade weathervane designed for landscape gardener. |
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Designed for Mr and Mrs Seal. |
Copy of the Twickenham Achilles weathervane. |
Gandalf. |
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Commissioned by Mr & Mrs Froggitt |
American Commission - designed from customer's description of smallholding - i.e. river running through valley of pine trees;
small shack with verandah; and of course a heron coming in to land
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Originally commissioned for 'Toad Hall' |
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Airborne Services |
A cosy grandmother, grandaughter and cat scene
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A portrait of three children made in 1994, - they'll be all grown up now. |
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Photographs of children are popular for both house signs and weathervanes |
When your house is called 'Woodpeckers' - - - (Note - all the white areas within the design are removed
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Old Father Christmas |
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More children immortalised on a weathervane |
Naked Sea Nymphs - the only choice from my 'Erotica' range!
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'Tranquility House'!. |
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