Willow sculptor Helena Mellenchip talks about her quirky animal creations, which have been 'mesmerising' visitors at Lytham Hall.
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00:00I've been living with these sculptures all last year so the orangutan's been looking at me for
00:04a long time but you get to a point when you're making a sculpture if you can look into their
00:09eyes and it causes you to be emotional I feel like I've cracked it and orangutan if you get
00:14close enough and look into his eyes you could almost speak to him and he does make me emotional
00:20so he's my favourite and I miss him actually so yeah I do miss him at home. Gromit on the scooter
00:26my boyfriend is an avid scooter fanatic so spending so much time in the garage last year
00:34I thought I'll do something that he can get involved with and luckily I had his Vespa scooter
00:40there too as a dimension and size comparison but who doesn't love Gromit so I thought I'd stick
00:46Gromit on top of it and I love him. Two hairs boxing with you know human life forms as well with the
00:53trousers on and the boots I just thought it would be a comedy thing and I thought if we can put them
00:59in the wood they're just going to look great so it's almost a funny thing can you imagine what the
01:04fight would look like if it actually happened. Everybody is totally mesmerised by them to be
01:10honest with you they love them absolutely love them we've never had a trail or done anything like
01:15this in the grounds on a kind of you know something that's going to run for a few months and had so much
01:21interest and you know they're so popular. When would you see these things in real life unless
01:26you went to a zoo or went to where they're from Sumatra or Africa where would you get to see that
01:31so although they're just willow sculptures it does evoke a feeling of oh wow look at that creature you
01:38know in between work and everything it has taken me pretty much the whole year and it's been a labour
01:43of love it's gone on and on but I'm so glad that people are getting to enjoy them now. Now not
01:50many people are saying this but I love the boxing hairs and I also like the location down near the
01:55lily pond but I don't know the way they're just looking at each other I don't know it's I think
02:00it's great yeah but I think also just behind me here is the orangutan in the tree and I think that that
02:08has to be up there as well.