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Sculpture Name: Funhare Sponsor Name: Echo Created by: Graham Collins �Graham is a professional artist/illustrator working at his own gallery/working studio at Barleylands Craft village for the last 15 years previous to that worked in the movie and entertainment business. Fun Hare: Depicting all the fun of the Fairground, one of the major landmarks of Southend for visitors. �

Sold for £4,200.00

Sculpture Name: Hare-cule Sponsor Name: Newell Properties Development Ltd Created by: Mik Richardson Mik Richardson is a Norfolk based artist who has run his own art business since leaving the RAF in 2006. He has, to date, painted 65 Wild in Art sculptures (and an additional 22 for other trails) which have raised nearly �250,000 for the charities involved. Harecule: He is based on Agatha Christie�s famous fictional detective Hercule Poirot. he is dressed in his monocle, tell tale suit and iconic spyglass cane but dotted around him are little clues as to his adventures and detective case studies, and of course, he also comes with his signature waxed moustache and hair.

Sold for £3,600.00

Sculpture Name: Rocky Sponsor Name: C2C Rail Created by: Sally Chinea - Local artist Sally Chinea has been painting and teaching for 25 years, engaging the next generation in art. Rocky: Southend-on-Sea�childhood memories of summers spent at the seaside, overloading the senses whilst on the golden mile � neon colours, bright lights, music and smells of sugar in the air, traditional fun and excitement. Escape and pleasure for grown-ups and children alike, all contained in a sugary souvenir to take home -seaside rock. Sally�s work depicts some of these memories, colourful seaside rock over a gold leaf background. Traditional lettering through the middle of the sticks- stations on the C2C line!

Sold for £4,400.00

Sculpture Name: Harold Finehare This Hare is covered with drawings of real tattoos from the people of Southend, making a historical, decorative local artwork with encouraging words. Esme loves memorial tattoos, the idea of someone loved and missed and being inked in place forever. Through good times and bad, helping to grieve and never forget. Above all, the heart and love tattoos are a dedication to that special person, when you want the world to know that you are in love! Esme works freelance via an agency selling her work worldwide. Her hand painted designs are sold to various companies including : Concord Fabrics USA, Historical Collections, Marks and Spencer where designs are printed onto curtains, duvet covers, crockery, cushions, gift wrap etc.

Sold for £5,200.00

Sculpture Name: Rusty Sponsor Name: Southend-on-Sea Borough Council Created by: John Bulley John Bulley is a local artist renowed for his work in the community. He has worked as a freelance painter in various roles- including film work. Director of Estuary Fringe Festival , John discovered his love of street art whilst working with disadvantaged kids with the Princes Trust. Rusty: Mystery sculpture dredged from thames estuary dubbed �Rusty� A strange heavily rusted half a ton cast iron sculpture of a hare was raised from the muddy waters of the thames estuary last week after it became snagged in a trawlers fishing nets�expert archeologists are baffled as to its meaning�one of them said �it might be some sort of art piece��

Sold for £6,500.00

Sculpture Name: The English Country Garden Hare This design features the glorious colours and animals of a typical English country garden. It follows the colours of the rainbow beginning at the bottom of the hare with red poppies, changing into orange nasturtiums, yellow sunflowers, changing into green foliage and then bluebells, indigo and purple delphiniums with a blue summer sky beyond. Small animals and birds, such as mice, robins, black birds, butterfly & bugs will be hidden among the flora - for children to spot! Lynne Campen�s painting style is mainly impressionistic - enjoying vibrant, juicy impasto paint and endeavoring to capture the countryside, changing seasons and dramatic weather we have in this beautiful country.

Sold for £10,000.00

Sculpture Name: Hoppy Poppy Sponsor Name: The Victoria Shopping Centre Created by: Rachel Blackwell - Rachel Blackwell is an Artist and Illustrator based in Malvern Worcestershire. She makes cheerful, imaginative, and whimsical paintings. She exhibits her work nationally and has undertaken a variety of commissions for murals and large scale paintings. Hoppy Poppy: She is a brightly coloured hare inspired by field of poppies at sunset.

Sold for £4,800.00

Sculpture Name: Hare-y Biker Sponsor Name: Atlantic Pacific Logistics Ltd Created by: Neil Fendell - For the last few years Artist Neil Fendell has been creating a series of posters celebrating the local area based around Leigh, Southend and the Thames Estuary. His illustrations are contemporary but have a quirky �retro� printed style. Hare-y Biker: This Design is a celebration of the local area in a collage of illustrations based on artwork from his popular �Fendell Posters� designs.

Sold for £4,200.00

Sculpture Name: Hare�s Magic - : As a star of seaside variety shows, he has lots up his sleeve � a string of scarves, a squirty flower, and a quick line in patter too. He�s an ace with spades, sharp as a diamond, and the heart of the magic club. But where�s the cheeky hare that popped out his hat? Maybe hiding around the back! Peter Poole creates artwork that blends realistic elements with imaginative ideas, including still life, landscape and urban scenes. He has designed backdrops for a children�s theatre company, and taken part in three previous Wild in Art projects.

Sold for £4,400.00

Sculpture Name: Patch Sponsor Name: Natwest/RBS Created by: Lisa Sheldon Lisa sheldon loves all aspects of art and design but and is currently using her small shed/workshop for glass work, copper foiling, leading and fusing. Patch: He is based on 70�s patchwork toys. Inspired by Gaudi�s recycle ethos. Lisa has used mosaic to create him using donated ceramics, items purchased from secondhand shops and boot fairs. Patch is only her second mosaic!

Sold for £7,200.00

Sculpture Name: RollaHare Coaster Sponsor Name: BTMK Created by: Jenny Leonard - Jenny Leonard is a community driven commission artist always pursuing collaborative art projects that bring people together. She currently does live illustration at events and delivers creative art workshops for schools and businesses. Rollahare Coaster: This design is inspired by Southend�s famous Adventure Island theme park and rollercoasters that can be seen on the beach front that everyone will know and recognise! Jenny�s design mimics the shapes and curves of rollercoaster tracks all across the hares body curving and twisting in with the shape of the 3D sculpture. Brightly painted with neon paints this also has glow in the dark painted highlights to make him really stand out on the trail!

Sold for £4,300.00

Sculpture Name: Sunrise Sponsor Name: Sunrise Created by: Jane High - Resident artist at Hadleigh Old Fire Station, Jane specialises in animal portraiture on a commission basis and has worked on collaborative mural events with local schools. Awareness: Inspired by the works of Van Gogh, Awareness Hare reflects the lifelong battle of mental health. The hare symbolises rebirth, as do Van Gogh�s many flower paintings, which are representative of hope and awakening. Linking both art and mental health, Jane would like to believe that the attached social stigma can finally become a thing of the past.

Sold for £6,100.00

Sculpture Name: The 'Rossi' Hare Sponsor Name: Rossi's Parlour Created by: Caron Brandajs - Caron Brandajs is a local artist who creates bespoke artwork for residential and corporate projects. She works along side interior designers and directly with clients to create and supply innovative artwork to compliment their interiors. She has been painting and designing for many years, studied at the London College of Fashion, followed by our local University, in Southend, where she achieved a first class honours degree in Fashion Design. Her love of textiles and texture features greatly in her work and her ability to use many different techniques and mediums allows her to challenge herself on each piece creating art that will enhance and add the finishing touch to any space. The Rossi Hare: Inspiration for the Rossi Hare was modelled on the retro style swimwear of the 1930�s The iconic Rossi colours, blue and white, are painted on to striped vintage swim top and short swim skirt, with ruffles, constructed from plaster, creating a 3 dimensional effect. A bandana and head scarf, together with a cool pair of swimming goggles, and of course, the iconic Rossi �99�, complete her look

Sold for £6,000.00

Sculpture Name: Familihare Sponsor Name: Ayers & Cruiks Created by: Judith Berrill - �Judith Berrill has worked in various media as book illustrator, stage designer, painter and graphic designer. She enjoyed sell-out exhibitions of recent work of topographical paintings based on maps and the paths of countryside walks. Familihare: Hares, have long been associated with the moon, the stars and witchcraft. They can also be seen in the springtime gazing at the moon, a sign of growth and good fortune. Up in the sky, the constellation of 11 stars named ��Lepus�� or �Hare� shines down on the corn fields and woods where this elusive creature can sometimes be glimpsed �.. if you are lucky!�

Sold for £6,300.00

Sculpture Name: Stella (meaning Light) the Disco Hare - She is a sparkly, star dusted sculpture, that shimmers in the light. She reflects how I see the work of Haven Hospice - bringing light into difficult moments with love and kindness. She has a flurry of stars running down her back and a special detail to represent Haven Hospice somewhere for the viewer to find! Natalie enjoys bringing fun, character and a story to her mosaic works of art. She has mosaiced full sized elephants,lions,Gromits, Faberge eggs, crazy Pr items such as catwalk garments, giant ice cubes and a wide array of contemporary commercial / residential onsite works. She also enjoys working with community and schools creating mosaics with meaning.

Sold for £7,900.00

Sculpture Name: Jimmy Hare-drix - This Hare is a famous Essex hare tribute act based on the legendary human guitarist, Jimi Hendrix. Hares come in droves to see Haredrix playing his Flying V guitar and admire his psychedelic flower-power outfits. Haredrix�s top hare-hits include Voodoo Leveret, All Along the Watch Form and Electric Hareland. Anne-Marie qualified as an archaeologist, she spent years in an office before finally rediscovering her artistic roots when Pigs Gone Wild came to Ipswich in 2016. Since then she has painted for many charity art trails around the UK.

Sold for £4,500.00

Sculpture Name: Harley Sponsor Name: Radio Southend Created by: Mik Richardson - Mik Richardson is a Norfolk based artist who has run his own art business since leaving the RAF in 2006. As well as producing over 400 murals, privately, in the community and in schools, he has also been involved in many of the public art trails across the country. He has, to date, painted 65 Wild in Art sculptures (and an additional 22 for other trails) which have raised nearly �250,000 for the charities involved. Harley: Mik was inspired for the Harley design from the famous Hairy Biker cooking duo with their love of motorbikes, so he definitely had to have a moustache and beard. He also sports a leather singlet style jacket with speedy tortoise/hare logo, a leather helmet with goggles, leather pants and buckled biker boots and will be completely 3d painted.

Sold for £4,200.00

Sculpture Name: Hare of the Dog Sponsor Name: Shout Design Created by: Allan Williams - Allan Williams has been a practising artist for over 30 years. He takes commissions for portraits of people, places and pets. He also paints portraits in the style of other artists e.g. David Bowie in the style of Picasso. Allan is currently a programme leader for an Ipswich base charity, Inside Out Community where he organises and delivers creative workshops to help people with their mental health and wellbeing.

Sold for £5,400.00

Sculpture Name: Hop, Skip, Splash Sponsor Name: Rickard Luckin Created by: Lissie Art - Lissieart enjoys creating art that responds to the history and heritage of places, which she has done in her colouring books featuring famous landmarks for counties in the midlands. Mostly working in acrylic paints, watercolours and pen ink she specialises in painting live at events and weddings, painting the scene as guests watch. Hop, Skip, Splash: Skip along the pier at sunset, where bright lights illuminate the rides on adventure island. Hop along the beach lined by colourful shells. Splash in the rainbow fountain by City Beach. Hop, Skip and Splash is a fun and colourful display of South-end on Sea�s attractions and vibrant coastline.

Sold for £6,400.00

Sculpture Name: Jet the Hareplane Sponsor Name: Quality Street Ltd Created by: Dinky Doors Dinky Doors are anonymous street artists from Cambridge. They are on an unexpected mission to *SAVE THE WORLD* from relentlessly terrible news and wanton drudgery. It�s ambitious, certainly, but the doors they have built and installed around Cambridge are dinky dollops of quirkiness that people are finding joyful and delightful. Jet the Hareplane: Jet set up business as an independent hareline pilot this year, when he realised that life wasn�t moving fast enough for his liking. To realise his dream, he studied haeronautical engineering and developed a strap-on 3p coin-operated jet propulsion harecraft wing. Sure, it was a harebrained idea, but he couldn�t hare less, and soon enough he was hareborne and hurtling towards the hareizon. He�s pretty hoppy, and hopping his business will really take off soon � certainly now that he has a passenger cabin strapped to his belly.

Sold for £15,000.00

Sculpture Name: Some Hare over the Rainbow Sponsor Name: Stibbards & Sons Created by: David Maguire Originally working predominantly with glass and ceramics, artist David Maguire has worked in the learning departments of visitor centres, museums and contemporary art galleries across the region. Some Hare over the Rainbow: This design was inspired by all the colours of the rainbow on a black background to make the colours pop. The hare gives a beautiful canvas to showcase a perfect colour blend, giving a bright and vibrant ombre effect. David hopes this design will bring a little bit of joy into your day! Sponsor Stibbards & sons felt the design was apt for them as �Somewhere Over the Rainbow� is one of their most requested songs at Funerals.

Sold for £5,500.00

Sculpture Name: Hoptimus Prime Sponsor Name: Utilize PLC Created by: Mik Richardson - Mik Richardson is a Norfolk based artist who has run his own art business since leaving the RAF in 2006. As well as producing over 400 murals, privately, in the community and in schools, he has also been involved in many of the public art trails across the country. He has, to date, painted 65 Wild in Art sculptures (and an additional 22 for other trails) which have raised nearly �250,000 for the charities involved. He has also worked with the community helping them produce over 100 smaller sculptures for the trails. He recently illustrated his 1st children�s story book based around one of the Wild in Art sculptures he designed & painted. Hoptimus Prime:This design, for the Robotic style hare, came from a brief with the sponsors who were after a cutting-edge style character to represent them. In their workplace they have a stunning Bionic man mural and wanted the hare to take a similar theme, so Mik designed him to have ceramic panels, with pistons and gears, electronic wires and glimmering led tubes behind a skin of mesh, glowing visor, with computerized readouts and a pixelated atomic powered heart in his chest. If you thought Hares were fast, then this one is like lightning!

Sold for £10,000.00

Sculpture Name: Leporum Fisher Sponsor Name: C2C Trenitalia Ltd Created by: Paul Karslake - Local Artist Paul Karslake was our lead artist for Hares about Town. Karslake had numerous solo exhibitions, and became famous for his depictions of celebrities such as the Rolling Stones, Johnny Depp, Michael Caine and Grace Kelly. The Karslake Centre, a centre for arts education, was opened at the Cornelius Vermuyden School and Arts College on 15 September 2005. Sadly Paul passed away on 23 March 2020 of sudden onset pneumonia, which was caused by COVID-19 Leporum Fisher: Our very first Hare, Paul based the design on Leigh on Sea and it�s fishing heritage

Sold for £20,481.00

Sculpture Name: Mr Meadow Sponsor Name: Gateway Property Management Ltd Created by: Luke Bryant - Airbrushing from the age of 13, Luke has had an interesting art career that has taken him around the world art working passenger planes. He has also painted many fairground rides and private canvas commissions. Mr Meadow: This Hare is inspired by the Essex countryside, depicting scenes from around the area.

Sold for £6,600.00

Sculpture Name: Rainforest Sponsor Name: A Better Start Southend Created by: Ruth Green - After graduating from St Martins School of Art, Ruth worked in advertising for many years. She then became a full time landscape painter, selling her works through specialist companies in the art world as well as privately within the UK and Europe and the USA. Partner and Founder of the Painted Pigs Company, Ruth has also painted designs for Cowparade, Wild in Art and The Elephant Family. Rainforest: To bring awareness of the need to protect the Rainforests and its inhabitants for future generations.

Sold for £6,000.00

Sculpture Name: View of Lepus Sponsor Name: BYAM England Created by: Karen Cairns - Using pen and ink to draw bold simple lines, Karen likes to show an alternative way of looking at objects and their surroundings. View of Lepus: The Constellation of stars named Lepus is named after the wild hare and is the inspiration for this design. Karen wanted a peaceful, magical night time scene � (possibly the view of the hare when she comes out to graze) with meadow flowers, grass, berries, insects and spiders coming out to weave webs�.

Sold for £10,000.00

Sculpture Name: Larry Sponsor Name: Genting Casino Westcliff Created by: Andy Downes & Bronwyn Oldham - We have 2 artists for Larry. In Andy�s art he likes to capture the beauty of the human condition. Stature, figure, projection and emotion. Andy works in various mediums but mainly in oil and acrylic paint. Bronwyn is a photographic artist, Bronwyn is captivated with all things floral. She encapsulates their intoxicating beauty, form and shape, through the use of photography to create large scale artworks with a nod to the Old Dutch Masters. Bronwyn is a regular exhibitor in the Leigh Art Trail and has work in collections, both locally and internationally Larry: A most flamboyant hare! Designed by internationally renowned interior designer Laurence Llewlyn Bowen, local artists Bronwyn Oldham and Andy Downes were tasked with recreating his gorgeous floral design in their own unique way. Working together and using their individual artistic mediums of spray paint and floral photography, their combined talents have given Larry a �new waistcoat of many colours!� He is definitely one hare you won�t miss about town!

Sold for £12,000.00

Sculpture Name: Wonderland Sponsor Name: Green Light Print Solutions Limited Created by: Lois Cordelia - Lois Cordelia is a community artist, speed-painter and tutor, based in Ipswich. She creates most of her art live in public and welcomes the opportunity to talk with people while she does so. Wonderland: Welcome to the world of fairytale, folklore and fantasy. Whether we moon-gaze with the hare, fall down the rabbit hole, or join the Mad March Hare�s tea party, Wonderland invites us to dream, be creative and let our imagination roam free. Where will you go?

Sold for £10,000.00

Sculpture Name: Nurse Hare-o Sponsor Name: Argo Global Created by: Phil Daniels - Phil is a professional artist working from his studio/gallery in North Norfolk. With pieces in collections around the world his art has achieved sales in excess of 800 paintings, known in particular for highly detailed wildlife paintings. Working in a wide variety of mediums and styles he is not limited to paper and canvas, with huge demand for specialist airbrush automotive work and street sculpture skills. Alongside local charities Phil�s artwork has helped raise � millions for those in need through his belief that art strengthens minds. www.UKArtist.co.uk �Art in Minds�. Nurse Hare-o: Be Patient� Hare�s Nursey In 2020 the world changed forever. Change always presents challenge, and challenge calls forth hero�s, none more so than the nurses on the front line of humanitys biggest challenge to date. Phil�s own challenge to convert a hare sculpture into a nurse was fun and also humbling. He hopes the realistic hair effect, with its representative generic uniform, will go some way in reminding us all of those hero�s� especially when this challenge is overcome. Hare�s thanking you!

Sold for £5,000.00

Blank Hare Would you like to paint and design your very own hare? Here is your chance- take a beautiful blank one home!

Sold for £5,000.00

Blank Leveret Would you like to paint and design your very own Leveret? Here is your chance- take a beautiful blank one home!

Sold for £3,000.00

Salvi By Nyia O'Hanlon This leveret design is a tribute to the late artist, Paul Karslake. Salvador Dali was Paul�s hero, he even hitchhiked to Cadaqu�s in Spain to see Dali and managed to have a brief conversation with him outside his house - a story artist Nyia was told many times whilst painting alongside Paul in his Leigh on Sea workshop. Nyia painted this leveret in Paul's own workshop, using his mass of inspiration all around her, and the memories of all the time spent together to create a piece of artwork that he would hopefully be proud of. Salvi - the Salvador Dali style leveret.

Sold for £6,100.00

Small Canvas 30 x 20cm Graham Collins ( artist Fun Hare) Hare Portrait in his own habitat

Sold for £500.00

2 x Small Canvas 20x20cm Beverley Fisher (artist Queen Bee) A beautiful Bee amongst the spring blossom -based on the Queen Bee hare

Large Canvas Beverley Fisher (Artist Queen Bee) 80 x 60cm Large Canvas of Bee�s in blossom- based on the Queen Bee hare

Very Large Painting 4ft x 2ft Large Abstract oil painting in soft colours. Paul Karslake A section of a larger piece�loose expressive free hand brush strokes and paint spattered vigorously across the surface�a complete contrast to his usual tight airbrush approach

Sold for £2,000.00