Richard, who has been National Champion Blacksmith three times and is a Fellow of the Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths, recently chose South West to galvanize a magnificent red deer which was commissioned to adorn a golf course in Somerset.

 

 

He also produced an incredible opening screen and gates for a large estate in Hampshire, featuring roe deer, a tree, foxgloves and cow parsley.

 

The huge gates weigh nearly two tonnes and were, as Richard explained: "hot forged, welded and hot dip galvanized, then finished with an acid etch primer, which was in turn lightly abraded" to produce this stunning result.