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"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. 

 

   

   

Muschelloewe - Detail Kof   

  

Muschelbrunnen Muschelloewe - Detail Hose

Flederbock  

Muschelpanther

Grotte
 

   

Gartenhaus mit Flederbock

 

   

Muschelpanther

      

 

Grotte - Detail