Ron Hagerty

welded metal sculptures have been capturing the natural beauty of human nature in unusual, surrealistic and whimsical ways since 1969.  His handmade, one-of-a-kind sculptures are fabricated using oxygen and acetylene gas, with a white-hot flame and copper coated mild steel welding rods.  It takes a lot of patience puddling the hot-liquid metal, fusing with a precise hand.  Hagerty manipulates the metal with detailed welding techniques.  The sculpted artistic expressive images are both refined and primitive.