‘Rain Machine’

£155.00

‘Rain Machine’

Including UK delivery

1 in stock

Description

‘Rain Machine’

Wooden Automata

Turn the handle and watch the rain!

Mixed media, made with cherry wood, driftwood, wire and beads

Collect from gallery £140

Including UK delivery £155

H 26 x Base 7.2 x 4.8 cm

Ian McKay worked in a range of fields including ceramics, metalwork and furniture-making, before making automata, and these various experiences explain his technical skill and obvious pleasure in working with different materials. He is proud to be labelled a toymaker and his approach to his work is refreshingly unpretentious: he says his beautifully constructed, frequently quirky and always eye-catching automata are ‘just something I make’.

“Everyone has toys, everyone plays. My mantra is ‘play every day’. Life is very serious and I think it’s good to have a bit of light relief. Children use play to find out how the world works, while adults use it as more of a distraction. It’s interesting watching how people react to my pieces. Most of them want to have a go and the experience of playing with them is quite liberating, it acts as a kind of escape.”