{"id":11834,"date":"2016-01-13T20:58:17","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T20:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kirkd.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11834"},"modified":"2025-08-11T16:25:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:25:24","slug":"welcome-to-the-hinterland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkd.co.uk\/blog\/welcome-to-the-hinterland\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Hinterland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Poor old blog… ignored for aaaaaages. I’d like to put it down to being really busy but its also that I’m too damn lazy to update this place. Still, not as bad as the five month gap between the previous two. <\/p>\n

So whats been happening in the last couple of months? Well, the Bertram Fiddle kickstarter got funded so I’ve been casting up Gavins like you wouldn’t believe so I’ll write up how thats been going on at some point, I sculpted a Welsh Dragon as a Christmas present, I finished and cast the goddess figure I’d been working on and at the end of the year I did a little personal piece to amuse myself over December. Thats four blog posts waiting to be written. <\/p>\n

OK, so I’ll write one up now, just to ease up my workload.<\/p>\n

The personal project was my attempt to sculpt a ‘real’ thing. All of my sculptures are either gods, aliens, monsters or comical in some way, shape or form and it seemed like I needed to work on something different to stretch myself in a new way. As it’s easy to sculpt something unnatural and claim “It’s supposed to look like that” I picked a character from a rather dark TV series I watch, hoping I could get a good likeness. This is my attempt at DCI Mathias from the Welsh TV series ‘Y Gwyll’ as shown is Wales or ‘Hinterland’ to the rest of the world, filmed in Aberystwyth. He started off looking a bit rubbish but things always do.<\/p>\n