Willard Wigan - (Bn 1957) - A hand carved sculptural figure of a young girl worked from the head of a cocktail stick, height 5mm, mounted to a supporting bar and contained within a glazed box frame, signed to the mount. Willard Wigan MBE is a sculptor from Birmingham who makes microscopic art. Many of his minute sculptures are created in the eye of a needle or placed on the head of a pin. Work can be as small as 0.005mm (0.0002in) and some of his most recent works do not exceed the size of a human blood cell. In July 2007 Willard Wigan was honoured by HRH the Prince of Wales with an MBE for his services to art.

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