"Fabulous
Creatures"
Shell
Statues by Barbara Lenz
While
developing her "Fantastical Creatures" from birds’ feathers,
Barbara Lenz has also created large-format animal statues from seashells
and snail shells.
The 1m
60cm tall "Shell Lion" is an outdoor fountain statue. Powered
by a circulating pump, a stream of water flows from the lion’s mouth
into a bowl decorated with coral in its arms, and then into a basin down
below.
A wide
variety of empty seashells and snail shells, mostly from Franconian
vineyard snails, are painstakingly applied by hand onto the base of
glass fiber reinforced plastic.
The
same method is used to create the "Shell Panther" (body length
1m 30cm), also a fountain statue, and the "Flying Buck-Bat" (wingspan
4m), the semi-plastic gabel decoration on a summerhouse.
Barbara
Lenz’s latest work during summer 2007 was to transform an old garden
shed into a candlelit, walk-in shell grotto with mirrored walls.
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