Hubcap artist

[annie]

The man who turns hubcaps into owls
Ptolemy Elrington sees animals in everyday objects - usually unwanted objects that have been discarded and left as rubbish.

The self-styled hubcap artist first became fascinated with scrap when he found an abundance of plastic car waste near his home in Bradford.

Later a trip to India convinced him that a lot could be made with the material that society threw away.

Now a full time artist based in Brighton, he has developed his own method for sculpting plastic scrap - with a special interest in fish

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[maureenho]

Amazing what people can do with things that would normally have been thrown out.

[Misspears]

tha22222

It amazes me where people get their ideas from, I just throw things away

Ann x

[wendy]