South Brittany Holiday Cottage

I have been making a load of metal mackerel to get ready for my parents to take back to the UK with them when they come out to visit later in the month. When my parents went back in September after staying here for the summer, they took some of the metal art work with them, and put them in a gallery, one of the pieces was a shoal of mackerel on a colourwashed timber frame. Well it has sold and the gallery have asked for another 5 pieces the same. So I have been cutting out, shaping and welding all fish, and today I am going to start painting them. They will then need to be varnished, which takes a while as I give them 3 coats on the fronts and 1 coat on the backs. I will have to find some wood pallets to make the mounts and colourwash them.
I would never of thought that I would be doing this when I came to live in South Brittany France.

I started making metal fish, cutting them out, then tapping them and making them 3D , then painting them and varnishing to finnish. I then mounted them on to pieces of colour washed wood and adding hooks to make them into key holders. My wife then started to sell them on the markets, and they sold quite well. So I thought I would like to have a go and try to make a living from it, so I went to the authorities and registered. So I am now registered as an artist here in Brittany France.