Wooden deer

A wooden doe suns herself amongst Holiday Hill's stands.

Gnarly Oak

I love the forest's gnarly Oaks, standing proudly in defiance throughout their final trimester. I say trimester, as an oaks life is divided into three portions, growing, living, decaying, each can be up to three hundred years in duration. Like natural sculptures, fashioned by time, the elements and the myriad insects and creatures who shape the forest, they are as much works of art as anything found in an art gallery.

Tree Penis

Childish I know, or maybe it's just the way it had been positioned, but the first thing that came to mind when I came across this section of cut tree was a tree penis. It put me in mind of one of those broken pieces of classic period Greek or Roman statue you see in museums or on ancient archaeological sites.  Or it could just be that my mind is the product of 1970's British humour.  Be honest though, it does look like a tree with a penis, doesn't it.

The Green Man

Whilst out cycling today I happened upon this Green Man wood sculpture, I must have seen it before, though I have no recollection. I like seeing art out, especially art with an organic aspect, and even more so when it has a spiritual/folklore element.

She sculpts sea shells

Or rather, he sculpts sea shells high above the sea shore. The 'he' being Peter Randall-Page and the shells being a series of carved Purbeck stone sea shells, set in dry stone niches high on the chalk grassland known as 'The Warren', along the Old Daggers Gate Road, with its commanding views both east and west along the Purbeck coast. The sculptures were commissioned by the ecology group 'Common Ground' as part of a larger project in 1985. This piece is Wayside Carving III.  I found an old photo of this site when new on the Peter Randall-Page web page http://www.peterrandall-page.com/about/sculptures.html and it's clear that in the proceeding 30 years since its installation, Wayside Carving III has sadly fallen into a semi ruinous state, well, not the carving, more the dry stone niche. I think it still looks cool. I thought about contacting the artist and seeing if would be okay to have a go at repairing the niche ( I think a lot of things), but then I though maybe this is what he intended. I could see that. I quite like viewing it as the material/sites journey back to nature and their origins. It's nice to see art in these environments.