Stanger Moore - Contact details
Mushroom Sculptures in metal

Trained in blacksmithing at Hereford College of Technology I have been shaping metal on the anvil for over ten years and welding seventeen years.  Within all of my sculpture there is a creative skill giving consistency and quality.

With so many items mass-produced and surrounded in our modern age with lifeless forms, I deem it necessary to create my work from natural living organisms. I have a particular interest in fungi. Mushrooms and toadstools seem to appear and disappear with a ‘now you see me, now you don’t attitude’, capturing our imagination and reflecting the concept of change.

Such organisms often appear on decaying matter, which seems to echo an eternal process of destruction leading to creation.  From within the unity of these two opposites a third process can be perceived which encapsulates an ever-evolving pattern based on transformation and change.  I construe this pattern to be a creative force and it is from this pattern that I strive to draw inspiration if nothing else I hope that whatever I make will help to make a more beautiful world.

The fire of divine inspiration under the control of a human hand results in an artistically created item which, it is hoped, reflects the divine harmony.

I am currently evolving further with new themes and these will be displayed in the gallery soon.

I can undertake commissions for bespoke metalwork.  Please feel free to contact me with any questions or enquiries.  I will be more than happy to discuss your requirements.

Stanger Moore:  (0044) – 07715510018

Studio Forge
Nidd House Farm
Killinghall, N. Yorks
HG3 2DF