Looking at a pine cone from above, we can perceive spirals of scales. You can usually count 5 spirals running clockwise and 8 steeper ones running anti-clockwise.

  
These are consecutive numbers from the Fibonacci sequence: A visual quirk that often comes with organisms trying to utilize space for maximum efficiency.

  
This is one of the 5 clockwise Fibonacci sequence spirals extracted from an incredible Towani Pine Cone (Pinus Sabiniana).

  
Cast in Bronze and weighing approx. 0.6kg, there are 5 spirals, each in an limited edition of 8.

  
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Sabiniana

Lobsters have long fascinated me. The range of articulation of the tail, with 15 individual sections, is so dramatic. When curled, the tail of a lobster can fully protect its abdomen in a sphere of armour plates.

  
Here is a fully articulated, latticed steel sculpture of the tail of a European lobster (Homarus Gammarus), made up of 15 individual sections.

  
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Cammarus

Fully articulated bronze sculpture of a crab claw - The right claw of a Velvet Swimming Crab (Necora puber), represented at 12 times original scale. It weighs 22kg and has 3 points of articulation. The work is named for Tayinloan, on the Argyll peninsula in Scotland, where the specimen was found.

Produced in a strictly limited edition of 12, beginning in 2018, all are signed and editioned. The second in the edition won the 'Into The Blue' category in the David Shepherd wildlife artist of the year, 2019.

This is #3 & #4 of 12 produced in 2023.

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