Rusticmania
Creating Beautiful Sculptures
Indoor & Outdoor Furniture for
Your Home, Garden & Business.
About The Artist
All Rusticmania artwork and designs are created by award winning artist Roger Coolbear.
From a very young age, Roger has always been very artistic and spent much of his youth painting, drawing and creating models. He achieved his first Art & Design GCSE aged 14, followed by 2 more Art GCSEs before leaving secondary school.
Being a lover of the great outdoors and nature, Roger pursued a career in forestry and tree surgery.
Having spent years in forestry, Roger started milling some of the Oak and Ash he had felled to create rustic furniture. From this point, he got back into artwork and started sculpting wood. From birds of prey to wild animals and mythical creatures Roger, creates beautiful and detailed lifelike sculptures.
Wood Carvings & Sculptures
Wood carvings, Metal Work & Pyrography.
Amazing unique pieces of artwork made from wood or metal. Bespoke commissions are welcome: we can create large or small designs to be freestanding or hung on your wall...
How about commissioning your own pet portrait, beautifully hand-burnt into wood (Pyrography) or a flying bird of prey, hand-carved and finished with pyrography and metal feet.
Epic Detailed Family Crests.
Example of a Sea Lion family Crest.
This exciting commission, located in Kent, takes fantasy and realism in sculpture work to a whole new dimension. The Sea Lion crest is half lion and half fish, magically emerging from the water, presenting his fleur de lis to the world.
Exquisitely detailed facial features are carved from one single piece of English Oak, right down to the teeth and gums. Fire and a small amount of paint were added to accentuate the features, in addition to the wire whiskers.
All commissions are created specifically to meet each client's individual requirements and needs.
Epic Detailed Sculptures
Example of a commissioned Savannah Cat Sculpture with incredible honey bee
As an Artist, I strive for realism whilst still maintaining the timber's natural beauty, blending both the wood and the animal together.
What makes a great sculpture is very much the same as a good photo: being able to capture a beautiful and surprising moment.
Epic Detailed Birds of Prey "Easily the best chainsaw carving of a Bird of Prey I've ever seen".
Example of a Buzzard, cleverly perched on a sandstone block.
Steel is often used in place of wood, either for finer details, or as an anchor. These realistic buzzard feet are made from steel threaded rod, welded and formed into claws, hiding where the bird has been pinned to this piece of sandstone.
We like to produce artwork for charity
If you are a charity and would like a piece of artwork to raise money then please get in touch to apply for a charity piece. This relief carving of an interpretation of the Royal Irish Guards emblem sold for £500 in a charity gala night for the Irish Guards benevolent fund.
This stunning carving of a Red Kite sold for £1600 in a charity gala night for the Irish Guards benevolent fund.
Exceptional Sculptures Carved In Your Garden
To quote the client who commissioned this sculpture of an Osprey above; "I don't just like it, I love it!". After I had completed the osprey, she sent a very kiond email: "Finally I want to thank you again for such a wonderful work of art - it lifts my heart every time I look at it!"
This sculpture stands 2.5 metres tall at the clients driveway in Monmouth, South Wales.
If you would like your own commissioned sculpture, please get in touch. Click the link below for contact details. I guarantee to create one of the most lifelike and beautifully detailed bird sculptures you will ever see. Get your own landmark like this one!
Hanging Sculptures
Owls and other Birds Of Prey are very popular as hanging wall art.
These pieces are perfect either indoors or outdoors. Each creation is sculpted around the flow of the wood grain, so as to enhance its natural beauty.
They can be hung from a wall, fence, or above your front door, adding presence and character to your home or garden.
Check out the symmetry of the wood grain in the tail and the alignment of the owl's body to compliment the natural crack in the tail too.
Each piece is priced individually and will vary in size. For easy hanging, sculptures have preinstalled hardware and also have an optional backlight to allow them to stand out as a unique feature.
Please contact us for a commission; name your chosen animal and we can draft a bespoke design for you.
Sculpted Coffee Tables
Beautiful free form sculpted Coffee tables made from Oak & Ash made to order.
These are exceptional pieces, unique and made to last, with a satin finish coated in oils. The tops are sculpted from 2.5" / 3" thick Oak boards and can be made to your specifications.
Carving; The Tools Used
After mapping out details on the timber with a piece of charcoal. The initial carving starts off with the chainsaw, after rough caving other power carving tools are used such as angle grinders with various grinding and sanding disks. Finer work is then done with gouges and chisels. After tidying up, finer detail is added with a Dremel. The carvings are then sanded down with various orbital sanders. Once sanding is complete the blowtorch is used for shading and marking plumage. Finer details are added with the pyrography pen.
Pyrography Pet Portraits & signs
Custom Made Signs
This sign was designed with Rusticmania and the client.
Our client Sam, is a passionate breeder of Savannah Cats, an incredible Serval crossbreed with a domestic cat. Sam is also a bee keeper and specialises in removing bee swarms from chimneys.
Sam is very keen on his Bees and Cats; I have already made him a large Savannah Cat and Bee sculpture, and currently have 3 more sculptures commissioned.
Designing your own wooden sign can be done easily on the phone or meet in person. Please contact us for more details.
Pet Portraits
All portraits are burnt in wood (Pyrography)
Feel free to contact us for a free consultation for your very own portrait of a pet. It is easy to set up - you simply send a photo of your pet through WhatsApp, FB messenger or in an email. The photo can then be used as a reference for your piece of artwork.
Pet Portrait Prices
A Standard Pet Portrait measures approximately 9" x 12" (23 cm x 31 cm). Prices starting from £450, or £500 to include the pets name.
A Larger Pet Portrait measures approximately 12" x 18" (31 cm x 45cm). Prices starting from £600, or £650 to include the pets name.
To include a night scape background (shown in Lizzie's portrait below) will be an extra £165.
Inspired to have anything larger or something different? Then please do not hesitate to contact me and your portrait or portraits can be priced accordingly.
If the Standard Portrait is out of your price bracket but you still like the brand, then I could do something smaller to suit a more modest budget. Please do not hesitate to ask.
Examples of Pet Portraits
Roxy
Roxy's portrait is on an Ash canvas, approximately 12 x 18 inches.
Roxy is a Jackapoo, so her features include fantastically curly poodle-style hair. This was achieved on the portrait through concentrating on the highlights - burning through some of the shaded background with the blowtorch and then removing the highlighted areas of the curls with a Dremel sanding tip.
Roxy's portrait was protected with fixative upon completion.
Diesel
Diesel's portrait is on a Western Red Cedar canvas, approximately 12 x 9 inches.
Diesel is a Miniature Schnauzer. His portrait was done with pyrography and acrylic paint to show off the subtle shiny grey tones of the Dog's fur. This style is called Pyro painting.
Teddy
Teddy's portrait is on an Oak canvas, approximately 12 x 9 inches.
Teddy is a Dachshund. His portrait was done with pyrography and acrylic paint to add some highlights to his reflective coat and add a bit of colour to his black and tan markings. This style is called Pyro painting.
Frank
Frank is a French Bulldog, with highly defined features - he has fine, smooth hair and required careful and meticulous detailing - a great many hours went into this portrait.
Most of the piece was done using pyrography pen, a fine liner pen and white pencil. Some colouring on Frank's paws was finished with coloured pencils.
A spectacularly realistic portrayal of a much-loved dog.
Lizzie
Lizzie's portrait uses a different technique to Frank - a similar style to Roxy's portrait (above). Lizzie was a brown and white Collie.
Background shading to create Lizzie's fur was added using a blowtorch, and then highlights were created by removing the burnt areas with Dremel sanding tip to make the toufts of fur really stand out.
For effect, a woodland nightscape was created through burning a dark background and highlighting, again using the Dremel.
Lizzie's portrait was coated with lacquer to protect it and give the piece a beautiful sepia effect.
Willow
Willow was a beautiful crossbreed, with well-defined features.
English Oak was chosen for the canvas, and after sketching out the structure and correct proportions of Willow, details of the face were added using pyrography pen and some shading effects were done with the small blowtorch.
Highlights were created using oil-based white pen and white pencil. Finally, the portrait was protected forever with fixative.
Outdoor furniture...
with a difference
Handmade With Care - Original & Unique Designs
All our furniture is made of local timber, sourced from beautiful woodlands in the Southeast of England.
All wood is milled on site from dead or dying trees. This has a better impact on the environment.
Benches
Oak Benches cost £595 but on speciel summer offer of only £395!
The Prosecco Bench
The Prosecco Bench is a beautiful rustic design, perfect to perch yourself on in the evening.
Two large flat arm rests just happen to be level, making them the perfect place to plonk your glass of plonk on!
All outdoor benches are coated with Osmo oil 420 for durability.
Every bench is unique
Although the Prosecco Benches are of a similar design and dimensions, they are still all unique.
Epoxy resin is used to fix and fill cracks and knots with colours. This transforms what once was a potential weakness into an exciting and individual feature.
Totemism stylisation
Inspired by totem poles and patterns seen in the natural wood grain, some styles incorporate animal shapes into the furniture.
The animals are created with a chainsaw and angle grinder. Extra shading and depth is given by carefully burning the wood with different tools.
Built for 2 - but you can squeeze on 3!
Designs are all made from either Oak or Ash timber.
The timber is 1.5" / 2" thick (40mm / 52mm thick).
Joined with coach screws and protected with epoxy resin
All Prosecco Benches are planed and sanded. Then coated with epoxy resin.
This shows off the wood grain, toughens up the sap wood, keeps the water out and also makes them easy to clean.
It is advisable to keep the benches covered when you can. The biggest culprit for ruining any wood finish is the sun! However, all benches can be recoated after a couple of years if needed.
Bespoke pieces
Requests for different designs are welcome ... such as this easily portable bench on wheels!
Please click on contacts and send us a message for any requests.
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