Alistair Berg

Alistair Berg creates kinetic mobiles and sculptures from a workshop near Frome in Somerset.

He has spent the last 30 years working as a photographer with Getty Images, but increasingly found the new digital landscape to lack an element of craft that his hands now yearned for.

Five years ago he made a large Calder inspired mobile for his own home and instantly reconnected with the simple joy of Making.

He subsequently explored many of the skills of the jeweller and the engineer necessary to make finer pieces, and creating these kinetic forms is now his primary creative outlet.

He works with recycled and industrial scrap metals and found objects that are repurposed in the pieces.

Themes of nature: leaves in the trees and waves in the sea, predominate in his work. Playing with balance, movement and shadow play, he creates pieces that respond to the air that gently flows around them. As each arm of the mobile moves, it articulates a response in each subsequent arm, setting up a dynamic dance within each piece that creates tranquility and calmness.