These original, hand-sculpted works of art are the result of a collaboration between renowned New Zealand artists Ivan Clarke and Richard Taylor. Ivan Clarke is the originator of “The Lonely Dog™” series, while Richard Taylor is the co-director and founder of world-renown special effects facility Weta Workshop. Taylor and the talented artists at Weta have gained professional recognition for their work, earning four BAFTAs© and five Academy Awards® for their film work. Ivan Clarke is a highly respected New Zealand Artist, known for his powerful landscape paintings and more recently his whimsical world “Alveridgea” and story called “The Lonely Dog™”.

Each piece of artwork is first conceived in Clarke’s mind and brought to life through a series of sketches and then detailed drawings. At Weta Workshop, these are then realised as “maquette sketches” in clay, a process which helps develop the concept into a working, three dimensional form. The final sculpture is undertaken by Weta’s artists, under the supervision and art direction of Taylor and Clarke. The work is completed with the final pass of fine detailing and preparation for casting.

These Sculptures are limited edition works of art that have been reproduced in bronze and hand finished to the highest standards. Each is approved by the artist and has been created utilising the skills of expert artisans at every stage of the process.

The castings are created by employing traditional lost-wax techniques. The origins of the lost-wax casting are shrouded in antiquity, but it has been used for thousands of years to create objects in metal which could not be produced any other way, due to the complexity of their forms. The technique permits anything that can be modeled in wax to be faithfully transmitted into metal and is still used today for fine art sculpture.

No unsigned or unnumbered copies of these editions are authorised, greatly increasing their collectable worth. These works of art are protected under copyright law and will never be reissued.