To make the piece, which will be unveiled in Woking on September 21, the sculptor has borrowed a friend’s workshop while he builds his own in his back garden. That’s the closest I have got to making a statue.” “I did make a statue of Betty Bassett that went to Trafalgar Square for a photo shoot. I have never done a commission like that,” he said. I’m very lucky that Woking Borough Council had faith in me. The sculptor spent six years working in Madame Tussauds, during which time he cleaned up around 300 waxworks and created a model of Mozart and the bodies of Prince William and Ant McPartlin. “Sometimes you make stuff and it doesn’t even get filmed.” You do lots of things and it goes on the cutting room floor,” he said. Not everything makes the final cut, however. In the 2010 remake of Clash of the Titans, the Woking resident created the human figurines used to manage life on earth by the Greek gods. When not designing 7ft sculptures, Mr Harland creates props for Pinewood Studios and Shepperton Studios, including the creation of 30ft trees made from polystyrene for the upcoming film The Legend of Tarzan. “I liked the idea he was sitting there thinking about something. “I did him as a seated figure, looking over an object from The First Men in the Moon. “I put through the proposal and my wife helped me. “I do a bit of my own artwork and I’m always keeping myself busy making parts and figures.Īs a member of the HG Wells Society, he admits to being a ‘bit of a fan’ of the author. “I work everywhere the job takes me really,” said the 38-year-old. Sculptor Wesley Harland, a Woking resident of more than four years, will depict the author contemplating in a chair, with the cavorite sphere spaceship from his novel, The First Men in the Moon, in his hand. The artwork, which will be installed in Christchurch Way, has been commissioned by Woking Borough Council for £49,700. A seven foot bronze sculpture of HG Wells, costing almost £50,000, will be unveiled in Woking to mark the 150 years since the author’s birth.
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