Micky Bolton was born in Durban, South Africa in 1956. He settled in the UK in 1974 when his first job was as a metal picker in a scrap yard. He then embarked on a career in panel beating and paint spraying, eventually moving on to run his own business restoring classic and racing cars. Inspired by metal sculptures from his native South Africa Micky began to exploit his own welding skills from an artistic viewpoint in 1994. His years of expertise working with metal enable him to create a wide variety of exciting art forms using recycled car body parts and panels and agricultural machinery. Often the parts themselves provide the inspiration for the final art form.

Commissions from 1998-2000 have included a life size horse for a client in Germany, a life size cow for an ice cream producer and other sculptures have gone to France, Italy, Ireland, America and Japan. The gallery has played host to a whole menagerie including ducks, chickens, dogs, flamingos, ostriches, monkeys and hippos.

Exhibitions and Commissions