This amazing sculpture garden sits at the entrance to a shopping plaza which was my destination on a recent Christmas shopping spree. It is along US 119 South in Charleston, West Virgina. This flower sculpture was brought to life by world renowned artist blacksmith, Jeff Fetty. Jeff is phenomenal and has won numerous art awards and has commissioned his ironworks for the well known and famous. He has done work for President Bill Clinton, the Elizabethan Globe Theatre in London, England, Yves Saint Laurent in Paris, France and writer Tom Clancy as well as musician Jon Bon Jovi among others.
I'm very proud to say I know Jeff. He and I were classmates throughout our elementary and high school years. He still lives in the hometown where we grew up.
I'm very proud to say I know Jeff. He and I were classmates throughout our elementary and high school years. He still lives in the hometown where we grew up.To visit other Today's Flowers participants click the badge at the top of my post to see beautiful blooms from around the world.
42 comments:
Very nice captures!
Meire
You could have fooled me! In fact you did - I had to read the text twice. Nice capture
Beautiful sculpture. Nice taken.
BEAUTIFUL PHOTOS!
have a nice week!!
What a fun discovery and that's great that you know the artist!
I'd be proud to know him, too--wonderful sculptures!
hello, Carletta
Very beautiful sculpture. Great tribute to his friend, congratulations.
Hugs
Oh..that is a neat photo!~Thought it was for real..
Cheers,
Yen
I love that sculpture! Your friend is very talented.
At which shopping center is this displayed? I was just wondering if I know of it.
Carletta: What a neat flower garden sculpture. It's probably covered with snow.
What a great sculpture! Flowers all year long.
How cute!! :-)
Some people are really talented! They look beautiful, Carletta! Have a nice week!!!
That is cute enough. Thanks for sharing the information on the sculpture.
Great pictures.
- Cheers.
flowers real or sclupted are works of art. Good for you.
Very good Carletta. Shopping spree????.... I can't believe you like to shop. What am I saying....all women like to shop. :)
Happy Today's flowers. Thanks for sharing. Mine is at http://srikebakat.blogspot.com
Boas fotos!
Flor é flor.
Um beijo. lili
so clever and pretty!
Your friend is exceptionally talented Carletta, a true artist. I am glad you introduced us to him. This flower sculpture is very beautiful, and you took great photos.
Now the cold weather won't hurt those flowers.
I like it a lot!
Now that's art if you ask me!
That's so cool, like a breath of fresh air. Hard to tell the scale but I imagine it's pretty large for highway viewing. We could stand to see more of that!
Nice place, Carletta. I think Jeff made a part of the road brighter than it should be. :)
Happy MOnday! Got a pink one as myentry today.
Jeff sounds like a real talented guy :)
He must be a great guy to hang around with!
:) Very pretty Art, Carletta!
It's a real neat idea!
Junie
Carletta, all the flower pictures on my blog were in Alaska. If you like the outdoors, you would love it up there. If you want to see some beautiful Alaska pictures look at some of these pictures. The guy lives in Alaska so he's been everywhere.
How unique and very pretty too!
Lovely sculptures! I also enjoyed browsing through Jeff's website.
Those are just wonderful. How lovely to have flowers that bloom year round.
Now there's a bunch of flowers even I couldn't kill! Beautiful photos of great art work.
wow i had to take a double look at those they are just gorgeous he did a good job
I love 'em. Great!!! How innovative.
Love your critter post too and the pretty snow scene.
I think you are doing well seeing what is 'round the bend'. MB
Wow...pretty artistic. Nice job!
Congratulations on the one year of blogging, and the cool awards Carletta! You deserve it!
We have snow here in Belgium as well, it started snowing here yesterday. For us, this is very very early in the season, last year we did not have any snow all winter, and then it snowed on Easter day!
I love the flowers you posted here today, and how cool is that to know the person who made them!!
This is really pretty. I sure some of his sculptures are so different than this too.
I used to come to the Charleston Regatta every fall. Stayed just north of town. I even have some of the Regatta pins the workers received.
Ohhhhhhh I LOOOOOVE those! Dang it! I could GROW them! And keep 'em alive even! Where can I get some? LOL! That is JUST what I need for my garden!
What a talented guy...it will be fun to see what you come up with for Today's Flowers as winter closes in ;)
Carletta,
Interesting post!
Beautiful sculpture of flowers of a great artist!
Luiz
I did a double take on this one...
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