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ZjHunk Metal Art - Paul Wilton and Leslie Wilton
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Artist Name: ZjHunk Metal Art - Paul Wilton and Leslie Wilton
Title of Piece #1: Baby Bennie the Spider (by Paul Wilton)
Media: reclaimed metal, old Weber BBQ
Dimensions: 40L” x 36W” x 24H”
Retail Price: $350 + tax
Artist’s Statement: When baby Weber went out to play, he found an interesting hat one day.
 
Title of Piece # 2: Lucretia, the Sunbathing Beetle (by Leslie Wilton)
Media: reclaimed metal
Dimensions: 20L” x 14W” x 9H”
Retail Price: $195 + tax
Artist’s Statement: When a garden trowel stepped on a typewriter…voila, Lucretia happened!
Title of Piece # 3: Matilda (by Leslie Wilton)
Media: reclaimed and new metal
Dimensions: 30H” x 16L” x 8W”
Retail Price: $600 + tax
Artist’s Statement: When handle-less shears met hay-less hook…voila, Matilda, the scissorbill crane!
 
Title of Piece # 4: Edmund the Grasshopper (by Leslie Wilton)
Media: reclaimed metal
Dimensions: 72”H x 45”W x 13”D
Retail Price: $2,500 + tax
Artist’s Statement: A monkey-less wrench and two open end friends walk into a rebar…voila, Edmund!
Title of Piece # 5: Claré (by Paul Wilton)
Media: reclaimed metal
Dimensions: 68H” x 31L” x 17W”
Retail Price: $850 + tax
Artist’s Statement: A handle-less sickle and a door-less knob commingle with a Ponderosa pine log splitter chain and…voila, Claré.
Title of Piece # 6: Bennie the Spider (by Paul Wilton)
Media: reclaimed metal including an old Weber BBQ
Dimensions: 45”L x 37”W x 25”H
Retail Price: $1,100 + tax
Artist’s Statement: When Weber the BBQ met sultry stainless steel, their lives were turned upside down and…voila, Bennie the Spider!
Title of Piece # 7: Hamish the Beetle (by Paul Wilton)
Media: reclaimed metal
Dimensions: 28L” x 12W” x 17H”
Retail Price: $800 + tax
Artist’s Statement: When Coleman the lantern saw blades, voila…Hamish the Beetle happened!
Title of Piece # 8: Edward the Dino Bird (by Paul Wilton)
Media: reclaimed metal
Dimensions: 7H’ x 4L’ x 3W’
Retail Price: $3,500 + tax
Artist’s Statement: When an old tired patio heater falls asleep, and dreams…
Artist’s Bio, Leslie Wilton: Once upon a time I blew glass. Blacksheep was my name. I was represented by numerous fine art and fine craft galleries all across America. But I traded my glassblowing studio for a machine shop and tried a different path. A decade later, the machine shop has morphed into a metal studio and I have discovered a new medium.
We are so blessed here in America. So blessed and so wasteful. When I was growing up, we never threw anything away. What we didn’t use up was either handed down, remade, recycled, or reused. Stuff we no longer wanted, we found new homes for.
Now I rescue discarded metal from a slow death of rust and decay. I enjoy breathing new life info otherwise useless items. It’s fun, creative, and “green.” And it keeps stuff out of our landfills. It’s my own personal crusade to combat our throwaway society, on piece of ZjHunk at a time!
Artist’s Bio, Paul Wilton: Having been on the technical side of art for 25 years, I was always the “go-to guy” for any sort of tool or tooling an artist might need. In my career as a master machinist, I have invented many products and tools to improve artists lives and hold letters of patent for several of these inventions.
I now find myself on the other side of the fence. I guess being around art and artists so much over the last two decades, it’s kind of rubbed off on me. I now enjoy nothing more than transforming unique discarded items into whimsical, colorful creations that hopefully will bring joy to people’s lives.
Photos: Rachel Cobb |
