Recycle for the Arts

I made this Rock Golem from some old Rocks that used to be a terrible 1980’s fire place that dominated a room in our house right up the the ceiling.

We have had the Rocks for years, when I got the idea to make some Garden ornaments to give some interest in my yard.

The Rock Golem is simply made from Recycle Rocks and cement nothing else, even the cement was recycled material by using odd bits of left over cement from work being done in my house

I found that a cement mix of 2 sand and 1 cement worked best (2-1).

This Recycled Beer Bottle Temple is amazing and really inspirational.

Astonishing work of recycled art and puts all those boring modern building to shame, if more people particularly architects was as talented and artist as the Thai monks that built this building the world would be a more beautiful and greener place to live.

The Thai monks from Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew complex in the north-east of Thailand, built this Temple from Recycled Beer Bottles by cleaning up the local area and having the local people take there beer bottles to the temple to be recycled as part of the building.

After writing an article about Heather Jansch and admiring her art work of horses made from drift wood it inspired me to try and make something myself using recycle drift wood.

I’m lucky I live on the coast so I took a relaxing walk with my son to the beach where I found piece of driftwood and some other natural bits and pieces a few bird feathers and some shells

I wouldn’t know where to start on a large sculpture like the life size horses Heather Jansch Does, not to mention I wouldn’t have anywhere for a life sized driftwood horse in my home or very small garden, So I opted sensibly for a small drift wood sculpture.

This art work is amazingly beautiful and visually stunning. The horses are made from recycled drift wood.

The artist is Heather Jansch who’s art work is made from driftwood that washes up on beach, branches from woodlands and recycled bronze.

I particularly like the way the horses stand in life like poses, I wouldn’t know where to start in doing a piece of life size art and just looking at the horses structure you can see drift wood wouldn’t be the easiest medium to use to create art.

The drift wood horses are absolutely amazing I’d love to go into a garden or wood and discover these amongst the undergrowth.

WOW! the Weee man is amazing piece of recycle art absolutely impressive. First impression on seeing it is, Cool!, but Weee Man has a serious message for mankind!, so although on first sight it excites a viewer on a deeper level it is quite disturbing and thought provoking.

The Weee Man was created in 2005 out of household electrical waste
This 3 meter high, 3.3 ton art project was constructed to bring awareness of how much waste an average person in England will throw away in their life time in unwanted electrical goods.

The canvertible car art, made from recycled cans this must have been such a lot of effort to make this art piece.

Recycled Cans Car Art

This is a pretty cool piece of art made from recycled children’s toys. Artist Robert Bradford used old plastic toys to create an exhibition of his art in London in 2008.

Recycled Toys Dog Art

The theme was “Plastic” which includes the dog art above.

The art exhibit went on display at the Trafalgar hotel, just off Trafalgar Square London in April 2008.

Artist: Caleb Law
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Picture Dimensions: 1035 x 1420 Pixels

Description: Rynel
Rynel is a Thief from London searching around with his friendly Gremlin Curbie. Rynel’s standards are low but constitution high with a master skill of thievery getting around with his trusty fork-spoon.

Curbie
Curbie is a Sprotolin a small friendly Gremlin which helps Roger with whatever he does.
His favourite food is Cheddar Cheese and Crackers

A fox had a revolt of conscience and swore off chickens. He climbed onto a stump and preached:

“Fellow foxes, examine your hearts! To fatten our bellies, we do violence to helpless, innocent creatures and incur the wrath of the farmers. Oughtn’t we rather to live at peace with all? My friends, I implore you, love the chickens! Escape the snares of unrighteousness! Set yourselves free!”

The foxes were divided. Many hated the fox, for they knew he was right but did not wish to change. But some believed in him.

The believers began to fast. As time wore on, the band grew skinnier and skinnier, and some began to doubt. The fox heard their whispers and seethed. From his stump he railed: