Meerkat in Silver - Medium Young Male

Meerkat in Silver - Medium Young MaleMeerkats, charming little desert dwellers, live in families and spend the day foraging in gangs within their territory never too far from a handy bolt hole or burrow. A juvenile meerkat. One of the family of six in the medium sculpture collection. Meerkats use their tails to prop themselves up when checking around for danger and hold their tails straight upright when they run. Sterling Silver sculpture dimensions: Height 6cm x Length 3. 5cm

Hippo pendant dimensions:

Material: Calfskin

Length: 35mm

The tallest land mammal

Length: 147mm

Its form follows a natural curve

Although I was familiar with Klipspringers in the hills and kopjies of my native Matabeleland it was not until I read about them in the 1987 Guinness Book of Records that I was really charmed by these different antelope

The King of the Beasts was common all over Africa in the days of the Romans

in the Hwange National Park in 1976

Cast using the traditional lost wax casting method

memory and enduring presence within the landscape

the pieces are then hand-finished and polished to bring clarity and depth to every surface