Month: January 2015

Mike Turner Studios Blog

It’s great to be back in www.michaelturnerstudios.co.uk and welcome to my first Michael Turner Studios blog. After enjoying the festive season on the nearby coast and in the New Forest with good friends and relatives and it would be fair to say I have a few cracking ideas for more stainless steel sculpture pieces to get stuck into over the next few months when I am not working on commission pieces for corporate clients and private collectors.

The last week or so of 2015 was remarkably busy with pieces of work being delivered to clients, items being prepared for exhibiting at the T5 Gallery  or off to be photographed.

By contrast, January was almost serene by comparison. It wasn’t of course, as there was plenty to be getting on with. The first piece I completed this year was the Peregrine Falcon and I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed working on it. It was quite an intricate piece so it took me a fair while. Carrie Bugg Photography did a sterling job on the photography, using a new location which worked really well. Carrie managed to capture my stainless steel bird to look as though it was flying through the air. I’m chuffed to bits with this and I’ve had plenty of interest in it already just from these images alone!

So onwards and upwards (no pun intended!) I’m now doing a little project for myself, which I love doing because it lets me think outside the box, and I generally like to challenge myself so not to get too complacent. I’m not going to divulge what it is quite yet, but I’m really hoping it turns out as well in reality as it looks in my head!

 

 

 

I am also in the throes of launching this new website at the start of February. I am slowly getting to grips with social media and hope to be able to populate my Facebook page and Twitter feed with exciting images and news as the year progresses. One of the most ‘liked’ images last year was of me with my head in the jaws of the Piranha, funny that!

Stainless Steel Arabian Horse being made by www.michaelturnerstudios.co.uk through youtube.

This You tube footage was taken to show how the Stainless Steel Arabian Horse was created from start to finish.  Its not something I usually like showing, as I am a bit of a perfectionist and always prefer showing the end product.  I took images throughout the design and build in an attempt to show how I work.

Michael Turner has recently been interviewed for the very stylish country ‘Hampshire Life’ magazine heres a snippet of the the Hampshire life article below.

‘Hampshire is a county rich in deep rural countryside with the glittering Solent fringing the southern coastline of the region. The intricate network of small towns and villages is joined together by winding lanes. It is off one of these lanes, between Lymington and Sway that you will find a dusty gravel track leading to Setters Farm.

Here you will find a group of outbuildings occupied by various craftsmen and women and a small bakery that pumps out the most glorious smell of warm dough and jam each morning. Michael Turners’ small studio is positioned on the corner and in the cooler months an old oil drum can be found with a fire burning in it where people go to warm up and discuss their various projects and latest commissions.

It is here that Michael Turner is able to unleash his creative streak and mastermind his next piece of extraordinary sculpture. From his laid back demeanor it is hard to imagine Mike wrestling with intense mathematical equations, reviewing his designs with an overwhelming intensity and ploughing through extensive and exhaustive research material, all the attributes of a talented stainless steel sculptor with an expanding reputation for his significant level of technical ability and craftsmanship, and the ambitious nature of his stunning works’.

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Michael Turner Studios interview