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2014 RSST  Volunteer Awards This year I have again designed and produced the RSST Volunteer Awards. The eight awards were presented at Warwick Hall near Carlisle on 10th July, along with the major award;  the David Stapleford Award, which was presented to Dr Raj Jones. After sculpting the originals in wax and taking  moulds, I then cast each … Continue reading 2014 RSST Volunteer Awards

First casting of my latest work; ‘Halcyon Days’,a sculpted wall plaque I’ve just finished this piece based on the Greek legend of ‘The Halcyon’. It’s sculpted in relief and as well as being a sculpted wall plaque made in cold-cast pewter shown below), it will also be available in copper and bronze and used to decorate trinket and jewellery… Continue reading My latest sculpture; Sculpted wall plaque:Halcyon Days

‘George’, my Red Squirrel kitten sculpture, is now available as a painted version as well as in cold-cast copper. He is a limited edition of 150 pieces and is made to order. Please contact me on 016977 41012 or via email; kirsty@justkirsty.com to order or to check availability. George is £125.00 (plus £7.00 insured and tracked postage)

As you may know, I make a donation to red Squirrel conservation projects from the profits of each sale of my Red Squirrel sculptures; ‘Charles’, ‘Willow’, ‘George’ and ‘Hope’. The running total is now just short of £1500! With £525.00 ‘in the pot’ yet to give out, yesterday, I sent £175.00 to RSST ( Red Squirrel Survival Trust)… Continue reading Red Squirrel conservation donation from sculpture sales

I’ve now made the 100th ‘Willow’ out of the 150 limited edition! ‘Willow’ was made as mate to ‘Charles’, who is completely sold out, and mother to my new red squirrel kitten piece; ‘George’. She, like my other squirrels, is hand-made in cold-cast copper. She was sculpted in wax, moulded and then cast, polished, buffed, waxed,… Continue reading 100th ‘Willow’ Red squirrel sculpture!

New Red Squirrel Sculpture by Kirsty Armstrong. This is ‘George’, the squirrel kitten. My first and second Red Squirrel sculptures; ‘Charles’, and his mate ‘Willow’, finally have off-spring! ‘George’ is a life-size Red squirrel sculpture of a kitten between 3 and 4 months old. He is a limited edition sculpture of 150 pieces comprising of 125 in cold-cast copper and 25… Continue reading Red Squirrel sculpture; ‘George’, the squirrel kitten by Kirsty Armstrong.

‘Charles’ and ‘Willow’, my red squirrel sculptures, have finally had their first offspring; ‘George’. I finished sculpting him in wax last week and took him to ‘Lakeland mouldings’ in the Lake district to be moulded. After checking over the aluminium cast ( the ‘master’), ‘George’ will now be moulded again and a second ‘skin mould’ will be made. From… Continue reading ‘George’, my Red squirrel kitten sculpture is finally finished.

Today, I sold the final available ‘Charles’ of the limited edition of 100 ! I began selling ‘Charles’ just before Christmas, 2010. I’m going to miss making him, but ‘George’, the squirrel kitten, is on the way and ‘Willow’ and ‘Hope’ are selling well….

I’ve finally decided, after many different compositions, on the content and pose for my new squirrel piece to follow ‘Charles’ and ‘Willow’! The next piece is a squirrel kitten, just one on his own, called ‘George’. I’ll be working on him over the next few weeks to get him into production just before Christmas. I already… Continue reading Squirrel kitten

I have just been asked to sculpt four bronze Spitfires. They will be quite large and as they have no eyes and feet, a bit of a departure from my usual animal sculptures! I will post my progress as I go…. Here’s a picture I took of the real thing.