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Willad Wigan:

Art in Miniature

Cobra productions in cooperation with anneferrer presents . . .



Nano-artist Willard Wigan

lives in Jersey, UK, and

creates the world¶s tiniest

art, working late at night,and timing his movements

between heartbeats.



Much of his art is created to fit

within the eye of a needle, as

this gold Statue of Liberty.

From being a traumatized and

unrecognized dyslexic child, he is

now emerging as the most globallycelebrated micro-miniaturist of all

time and is literally capable of

turning a spec of dust into a vision

of true beauty.



Charles Dickens

Winston Churchill

Willard can create a masterpiece within the eye of a tiny sewing needle,

on the head of a pin, the tip of an eyelash or a grain of sand. Some are

many times smaller than the period at the end of this sentence.



Elvis on the Head of a Pin

Marilyn Monroe on a Diamond

Wigan, who is completely self-taught has baffled medical science

and been the subject of discussions

among micro-surgeons, nano-

technologists and at universities

worldwide.



A girl with a red balloon walks

along an eyelash, supported

by a needle.

A cat climbs a cat whisker

Wigan¶s smallest sculptures can

only be measured in thousandths

of an inch which is why they cansit, very delicately, on a

human hair three thousandths of

an inch thick.



String Quartet

in the eye of a needle.

The Last Supper

in the eye of a needle



Snow White and the

Seven Dwarfs (note the

witch with the apple, above

the eye of the needle).

Peter Pan, Tinkerbelle, andthe Darling family children,

John, Wendy, and Michael

(with Teddy Bear)

on a small fish hook.



Wigan¶s work is ground-breaking - partly because of the astounding beauty of

vision which challenges the belief system of the mind and partly because it

demonstrates that if one person can create the impossible, we all have the

potential to transcend our own limiting beliefs about what we are capable of.

The Wizard of Oz

Cast: Dorothy, the

Cowardly Lion, the

Scarecrow, the Tin

Man, Glinda, and

the Wicked Witchof the West.



Zeus, on a Grain of Sandatop the head of a pin.

Rodin¶s The Thinker

on the head of a pin.



Michelangelo¶s Dav id , front and rear views, on the head of a pin.

When working on this scale Wigan slows his heartbeat and his breathing dramatically through meditation and attempts to harmonize his mind, body

and soul with the Creator. He then sculpts or paints at the centre point between heartbeats for total stillness of hand.



The Titanic on a glass granulemounted on the tip of a needle

Solid gold clipper ship on a crystal,

compared to the size of a needle.



The Tower Bridge in London.

and Henry VIII, with his six

wives (many of whom

spent time in the Tower).

Wigan likens his artistic

process to "trying to pass

a pin through a bubble

without bursting it."



Adam and Eve

carved in a graphite

pencil lead.

22 kt gold dragonflyperches on the

point of a needle.



The Eyeof the

Needle

Gold Tiger

Barn Owl

Baby



The Head

of a Pin

Elephant

Swan

Polar Bear

on Grain of Sugar



For more information, or to view exhibition schedules, go to:

http://www.willard-wigan.com/art.html

Salamat po!

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