Friday 24 August 2012

Winston heads to Rudgwick

We're out and about this weekend attending Rudgwick Steam Fair. Come and see us there. You won't miss us because our bright blue life-sized Winston the Pig will be helping us man our stand. He's a hit wherever he goes!

Wednesday 15 August 2012

Art comes to the farm!



A local arts student has found inspiration for her latest work by visiting Holmbush Farm World.Our most popular pig - Winston the woolly-haired Mangalitza -became the subject for a final year degree piece as student, Sophie Bain, completed her BA Hons in Character Creation and Technical Effects at the University of Hertfordshire.

Sophie, who lives locally and previously attended Richard Collyer Sixth Form College in Horsham, has sculpted a life-sized model of Winston in clay and then immortalized him in blue fibre-glass!

Sophie said: “My degree course has been all about creating props and models for the theatre, film and attraction industries and I wanted to make my final piece big and unusual. Winston’s bulk and unique features appealed to me as a fun project. I worked mostly from photos, building a clay sculpture over a polystyrene base so I could create a mould and then the final fibre-glass model.”

The sculpture is now being used to help promote the farm at local shows and events and will soon be installed as a permanent feature within the farm park itself. 
Come and see if you can spot him!