Recycled Metal Garden Art – Eco-Art For Your Backyard

Enthusiastic gardeners are likely to be very green folk. They like digging in the dirt, recycling and composting, and effortlessly integrate other people’s cast-offs into their outdoor decor. When shopping for exciting pieces to decorate their yards, recycled metal garden art may be a popular choice.

The eco-artists creating recycled metal garden are very creative and talented. What may be trash to you or me is reborn in the hands of these talented artists. One artist, Andrew Chase, makes amazing mechanical sculptures of giraffes, elephants and robots from recycled automobile and plumbing parts. He gets junk transmission and engine parts from his local auto shop, and by combining these with plumbing fixtures and pipes he is able to create fantastic, moving creatures.

Discarded oil tanks and drums are quite frequently used to make metal yard decor. Coloured oil tanks that once supplied fuel to cottagers are cut down into brightly colored critters, including dogs with bones, dancing sheep or moose, lurking alligators and climbing frogs. For something a little different you can even add a diva or a devil!

In Haiti an ever growing crafts community is making delightful metal wall art from flattened drums previously used to carry oil or other products. After removing the ends these drums are flattened and next carved manually into exotic works of art. Using only simple tools like hammers and chisels, the artists create elaborate, creative designs out of the steel. Steel drum art from Haiti is renowned world-wide and increasing in popularity. Inside the house or in the garden, it makes a striking piece of wall art.Saving bicycles from untimely graves a new breed of eco-artists are choosing recycled bikes parts to produce their art. Bike art is becoming so trendy it is a genre of its own. With gears and wheels, nuts and bolts, spokes and bars, a bike may be the ideal raw material for recycled metal art.

A large part of the appeal of recycled metal yard art may be the weathered and often rusted look of the various pieces. Rusted metal has a earthy, natural look and blends with the garden rather than making a loud statement. That is why many gardeners seek out pre-rusted metal art.

The talent of artists working with recycled metal always amazes me. Add some recycled metal art to your yard and add instant character and charm.