Thursday, May 31, 2007

Needle Art by Willard Wigan

Willard Wigan was born in Birmingham, England in 1957 and is the creator of the smallest works of art on earth. He has a learning disability (Dyslexia), but has talented hands.

Wigan uses a tiny surgical blade to carve his microscopic figures out of rice, grains of sand and sugar, which are then mounted on pinheads. 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, spending months meticulously carving his materials into micro-figures.

Statue of Liberty in the eye of a needle

Titanic on the tip of a pin

Snow White & The 7 Dwarfs in the eye of a needle

Girl with balloon is standing on an eyelash


Winston Churchill in the eye of a needle

Elvis on a pin head

Ship on a crystal

Cast of Peter Pan on a fish hook

Six wives of Henry VIII


Marilyn Monroe on diamond

Elephant on a pin head

22 ct gold dragonfly on the tip of a needle

Frankie Dettori riding on a pinhead


Cat on hair

Visitors view exhibits through a microscope

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