Forged Steel and Mosaic Custom Garden Sculpture
If you know us at all, you maaay have noticed combining our skills to create mosaic and steel collaborations is one of our very favorite things to do. Can we tell you just how thrilled we were when this client approached us to create a custom garden sculpture in both forged steel and mosaic?
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We based the design for this sculpture around native Virginia plants such as arrowroot, cat tails, pickerelweed, and ferns. Kyle created an organic design incorporating simple geometric shapes to represent the leaves and flowers. In the first step to bring this sculpture to life, Kyle and his team forged the steel framing and organic forms. Next Johannah made the mosaics to fill in the geometric shapes. The mosaics were made on mesh then transferred into the sculpture, glued in place, and finally grouted.
You can see photos of the sculpture installed in the garden below, as well as a few close-up details of the mosaics and forged organic forms.
