dr nicholas gold

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After two careers, in the Coldstream Guards and as a G.P., he has finally found his passion for using local materials and creating works for that landscape. His work is commission only, and his whims and follies can be found in Arizona, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. He is influenced by Military Fortification and dry stonewalling of his native Yorkshire when he is not writing, exploring or inventing.
I have been building dry stone walls for about 45 years. One of the attractions was that I could turn something worse than useless, a stone in a field, into something useful and even handsome. Recycling was not in many people`s vocabulary until recently but that was, in effect, what I was doing. I moved to Guernsey in 2000 and have built some walls here despite the awkwardness of the local stone. At the invitation of Peter de Sausmarez, I built a stone cone 16ft high in his sculpture park and was then allowed to lower the tome of the place by making some items out of what I have found washed up on the beach.
Then the parish in which I live decided to have a scarecrow festival. I have contributed every year for 9 years. scarecrows are made of things which would otherwise have been thrown away and I have turned what I found on the beach or on the roadside into wind-powered mobiles of increasing complexity.
Years ago I started to compile a list of things which could be made out of plastic bottles. Amongst the 30 odd possibilities was a raft. I made one in 1996 out of litre milk bottles and a folding (zed) bed from the council tip. I entered it in a raft race and was awarded the wooden spoon. I am now, still, working out ways of reducing the drag.
Sculptures by dr nicholas gold
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