Tom Hill, a talented self-taught sculptor, uses recycled horseshoes to create incredible life-size animal sculptures.
The artist utilizes a gas forge, anvil, hammer, as well as various welding techniques to heat and shape horseshoes into amazing sculptures.
Also check out: Driftwood Horse Sculptures
Julie
Pretty cool :)
Apr 9th, 2010
Lindor
Good idea, but it’s not so artistic or amazing IMO. Just shapes of animals using horse shoes. It would be more interesting if he made the forms more exaggerated or abstract.
Apr 9th, 2010
Gen
awesome!!
Apr 9th, 2010
Uri Gobey
all that and only one horse????!!!
Apr 9th, 2010
Arkwright
Hehe, these are quite charming, the fox in particular.
Considering that he’s a self-taught sculptor, I feel that there’s a very appreciable beauty of artistic craftsmanship in these sculptures rather than one of some abstract expression.
Apr 9th, 2010
Sky_pirate
Love it! They’re all amazing
Apr 10th, 2010
Cechas
deer looks great
Apr 10th, 2010
Den
Very nice! I find them amazing!
The turtle is just awesome!
Apr 10th, 2010
Mask
I love the stag.
Apr 10th, 2010
latincrow
really cool, loved the fox
Apr 10th, 2010
noartist
@ LINDOR: I think that the beauty in this comes from the unusual material used and how realistic in form the horseshoe animal is. One has to appreciate the workmanship it must take to create such a sculpture!
I loove the elephant!
Apr 11th, 2010
rizwan
awesome…. :)
Apr 11th, 2010
Karin L.
I really like this!!!
Apr 12th, 2010
Reilly
Very creative. They look great!
Apr 12th, 2010
Lintu
awesome =)
i want one of them
May 9th, 2010
larry
As an amateur welder myself using horseshoes I find these world class. The average observer has no idea the labor involved. Very impressive!!
May 12th, 2010
Joe
@Lindor – I made some of these myself last night, except I made the simple guys made from 3 horseshoes. Those simple, 3 step ones took me about an hour a piece. Imagine taking those three steps, and multiplying by 100. Each and every horseshoe on these sculptures is bent, or altered in it’s own way. Not just a bunch of regular shoes welded together.
If you think that is easy, I challenge you to make something that amazing and flawless.
Dec 25th, 2010
Ginger
I love these !!! Do you sell these??? If so, where and how much…??? Elephant
Jul 15th, 2011
Paul Olson
this would be much harder than you’d think to do. everything looks anatomically correct, even the contours of the animals seem life like. forming metal is something one can do with practice, but making it seamless with large individual parts and having natural flow to a body would be a time consuming task. making something appear natural would take a keen eye and more detail orient than one would think.
props. wonderful stuff!
Aug 31st, 2011
Debra Lane
They were ALL my favorites!!!
Sep 19th, 2011
David Earick
To say these pieces aren’t art is an insult, it takes incredible talent, work ethic, and many man hours to produce such a sculpture. Being an ameture horseshoe sculpter/welder myself and owner/operator of “Outlaw Primitives LLC.”, I understand what it takes to make even the smallest piece from metal, and these are nothing short of amazing. Great job on these pieces, they are truly a work of art!
Oct 15th, 2011
Sandy G
…and really easy to clean-up-after.
Oct 17th, 2011
Mary
What is the price of the turtle?
Nov 9th, 2011
delta gunner
Outstanding! Being a lifetime welder/fabricator in every aspect of iron work, machining and on for 42 years, this represents a gateway I’ve not entered and have to say I’m impressed and humbled by the raw talent shown here. The great multitude of tack welds that had to be made and the integrity of the tacks so 15 don’t break while adjusting one is probably only imaginable by a welder not to for get expansion and draw at heat and cool of every weld. I hope you are charging a substantial rate for these. I dabbled in a two seat porch swing from horse shoes, simple in comparison yet enough to make me run from an attempt at these. On a guess, I’d price the Buck Deer at 25 thousand, minimum. Peace, and get paid up front.
Nov 14th, 2011
mario30
I really like the swan
Jan 10th, 2012
tye
Wonderful art!!! Tell lindor to try it and find out how artistic it really is.
Feb 25th, 2012
trey bailey
panther is the most amazing thing ive seen so far
Apr 2nd, 2012
Steve
@ Lindor you must be joking “not artistic or amazing IMO”
“Should have gone to specsavers”
Theyre fantastic peices of art,unpretentious and earthy
wish i had half that skill,well done mate.
Jan 5th, 2013
Kathy
What clever and oh so creative work!!! Amazing!
Nov 18th, 2015