Andrian Melka came into The Acorn Gallery this morning and had a browse around, he was asking about the Alexander Millar Angel Bronze Sculpture that we have in The Oak Room and said he is a sculptor and so we got to talking...
He works from commissions on pieces for individuals and private estates and often his sculptures are larger than life - literally! He works from a complete block of stone or marble and works it through to completion, often taking six months or more to finish a single piece...
I asked if he had any pictures of his work and he showed us to his website... Wow! This man is good - seriously good!
The statue of Medici Venus is shown during its installation at the top of a 12m column... Andrian explains how he watched it being hoisted 20m into the air before being lowered down into place...
As we scroll through the images... Atlas... Bacchus... Diana... the quality of his work is superb... His statue of Neptune is just staggering! Truly breathtaking -the smooth marble carefully sculpted into a six-pack that you wanna get your hands on for all the wrong reasons!
We move onto a massive public project that he undertook in Santa Barbara in California! They had a very large sculpture outside the Court House entitled 'Spirit of the Ocean' but it was crumbling and irreparable due to its age.. Andrian was commissioned to re-make it in its entirety, exactly as the original had been! So keen were they to have him above anyone else that they didn't even mind paying the £6k Visa fee for him to go over there to work!
Spirit of the Ocean, Santa Barbara Courthouse, California
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