Bringing Metal to Life

Sculpture from recycled material

Mark Hodson

Jo is a painter and potter, who moved around the country a lot, but  grew up in Essex and went to Bristol art school in the early eighties.

This series of pictures began in 2022 when the artist had recently uprooted and moved to Lincolnshire. A painter of memories and place, Jo was intrigued by the numerous village churches, with their strange blend of beauty and decay. When she found St James’ in Spilsby and discovered the vast memorial to her own Willoughby family, it immediately offered her a new sense of home.

Paintings based on family history

Jo Ferguson

Lincolnshire Churches

Based in Long Bennington, Lincolnshire, Mark is a retired  handyman and originally trained in the Royal Navy as a Marine Engineering Artificer. Trained in metal work and copper smithing Mark explores the diversity of metal components and how they respond to each other. By using these skills he has found an art in the creative expression of recycling discarded metal objects. He typically recycles redundant garden implements, old boiler casings and broken tools, which have no further use in the traditional sense. Then working from his own drawings and handmade templates, Mark transforms them into beautiful animals, birds and flowers.