I can’t quite believe we’ve run 60 metal sculpture courses at Sculpture Lounge but we must have and we both baked a cake to celebrate. Billy (David Mayne) who I run the courses with produced a lovely ginger and marmalade cake on the Saturday and I came in with a tray baked apple one on the Sunday. Now we’ve got the baking out of the way let’s talk students. We had our usual four students and in my room was Chris, returning for a second time aiming high in the ambition stakes who made a gate. Last time it was a cat so to Chris it was a logical next step to come armed with box section steel and gate furniture the next time and make a 1.8 metre gate. He brought his friend John with him, who really wanted to make a cannon for his garden. It’s our first cannon in nearly eight years of running these courses and we’re nearly as proud as John was. In Billy’s room across the corridor was John’s wife Sue who came with plans to make a hedgehog which she easily accomplished and went on to make a woodland scene and a comical bird from her old broken coffee pot. Also in Billy’s was Gwen who had been on quite a few ceramics courses at Sculpture Lounge but was tempted to try her hand at welding. With a real flair for equestrian art she quickly did an amazing drawing on a piece of wood and then proceeded to turn it into a three dimensional piece using bent wire. All four students had a great time and threatened to come back again to next year. Speaking of which, this was our last course of the year so we’ll be working out next year’s dates soon. So, if you want to get those dates before we put them out on general release just drop me an email. Thanks as ever go to Professor Billy who I run the courses with, we’re taking a break now but will be back doing courses next March.