Recycled Metal Garden Art – Eco-Art For Your Back Garden
Enthusiastic gardeners are usually very eco-friendly people. They enjoy digging in the dirt, composting and recycling, and effectively incorporate other people’s discards into their outdoor decor. When looking for interesting pieces to decorate their yards, recycled metal garden art is a popular choice.
Recycled metal garden decor is a true reflection of the eco-artist’s ingenuity and talent. What may be trash to you or me is reborn in the hands of these talented artists. One artist, Andrew Chase, makes stunning mechanical statues of robots, elephants and giraffes from recycled auto and plumbing parts. He gets discarded engine and transmission parts from his local auto shop, and by combining these with plumbing fixtures and pipes he creates wonderful, moving creatures.
Discarded oil tanks and drums are quite frequently used to make metal yard decor. Coloured oil tanks that once supplied fuel to cottagers are cut down into brightly colored critters, including dogs with bones, dancing sheep or moose, lurking alligators and climbing frogs. For something a little different you can even add a diva or a devil!
In Haiti a thriving crafts community is making fantastic metal wall sculptures from flattened drums previously used to transport oil or other products. After taking off the end these drums are flattened and next carved by hand into exotic art work. Using only chisels, hammers and other simple tools, the artists create elaborate, creative designs out of the steel. Haitian drum art is world renowned and spreading in popularity. It makes a striking piece of wall art for inside the house or in the garden.Saving bicycles from untimely graves a new breed of eco-artists are choosing recycled bikes parts to produce their art. Bike art is becoming so popular it is a genre of its own. With gears and wheels, nuts and bolts, spokes and bars, a bike may be the perfect raw material for recycled metal art.
A large part of the appeal of recycled metal yard art may be the weathered and often rusted look of the various pieces. Rusted metal has a earthy, natural look and blends with the garden rather than making a loud statement. That is why many gardeners seek out pre-rusted metal art.
The ingenuity of artists working with recycled metal never ceases to amaze me. For instant charm and character, add some recycled metal art to your yard.
Ann Wallis is a long-time gardener and lover of beautiful things for her garden. All year round she pores through gardening magazines and websites looking for colorful perennials to fill the holes in her garden and fun, whimsical metal garden art to add life and character to her yard. Ann’s favorite metal creations can be found at http://metal-garden-art.com
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Posted: July 24th, 2010 under Home & Family.
Tags: farming, garden, garden art, garden decoration, Gardening, Home & Family, landscaping, metal garden decor