Avid gardeners can be very green folk. They enjoy digging in the dirt, composting and recycling, and effortlessly incorporate other people’s discards into their outdoor decor. When shopping for attractive pieces to enhance their yards, recycled metal garden art can be a popular choice.
Recycled metal garden art is a reflection of the eco-artist’s ingenuity and talent. What may be trash to you or me is reborn in the hands of these eco-artists. One artist, Andrew Chase, makes remarkable mechanical structure of robots, elephants and giraffes from recycled plumbing and automobile parts. He gets junk transmission and engine parts from his local auto repair, and by combining these with plumbing pipes and fixtures he is able to create 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 an expanding crafts community is making amazing metal wall sculptures from flattened drums which were once used to haul oil or other products. After taking off the end these drums are flattened then carved manually into exotic art work. Using only hammers, chisels and other simple tools, the artists crave beautiful exotic pieces out of the steel. Steel drum art from Haiti is very popular throughout the world, and increasing in popularity daily. They look stunning in the garden, or hung on a wall inside.Saving bikes from early graves a new breed of artists are using discarded bikes parts to create their art. Bike art is becoming so trendy it is a genre of its own. With spokes and wheels, nuts and bolts and gears, a cycle may be the ideal raw material for recycled metal art.
Some of the appeal of recycled metal yard decor may be the weathered and often rusted look of the various pieces. Rather than making a loud statement, rusted metal has a natural, earthy feel to it and blends with the yard.. Hence many gardeners seek out pre-rusted metal art.
The imagination of artists working with recycled metal continues to impress 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 yard art to add life and character to her yard. Ann’s favorite metal creations can be found at http://metal-garden-art.com