Sheds

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At the time of writing I realise that it has been some time, erm, around four years since making anything in the name of Sculpture as opposed to Public art. One of the reasons for this has been prolific shedding. Along with countless others for their own reasons I have become a devoted sheddist and have plans for more. So here is a little tour of the two sheds so far catalogued that I have built at our home in Alton, Hants. The most amazing thing about sheds is that as long they are at least one meter back from a highway and not more than fifty percent of the original building plot at the time the original house was built you can do virtually anything beneath 4meters on a pitched roof without planning permission. I did write to my council to get confirmation of this was told that I could get on and build. The first shed is my studio, the second is a music room the third is a Café and the conservatory counts as the fourth shed; and there’s the bike shed to replace and develop. All this took up a lot of time I could have used for making sculpture. So what; now is the time to make some more sculpture and prints in shed number one.
The second shed used to be a small and quite useless wooden garage; I started the work laying the foundations using the garage as shelter in 2007. It was winter when I started to build it; mainly so my son Bill would have a place to practice with his band Point of Impact. There are more sound proofing layers than I can remember the main component being 70mm Rubber blocks (scrap sleeping policemen,) from a local firm Rediweld. It was built almost completely from recycled materials and fodder from skips.