Here's one I wish I'd seen. David Kemp's 'Heron' could be found in Grizedale Tarn until the tail-end of the 1980s, constructed from old bits of scrap, as Kemp described in 'A Sense Of Place', where he also talks about his ethos and approach to sculpture:

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"All the pieces for the making of it, but no more, I found in a derelict barn at Thwaite Head. After they'd been abandoned for a while in a corner of the workshop; the Heron happened very quickly. I had been at Grizedale for a couple of months and was beginning to get homesick for Cornwall. I made it at the workshop and installed it at Grizedale Tarn, the obvious place for it, with the help of a visiting Cornish friend. Much snorkeling and wading in the mud were involved. The 'zoomorphic' quality in old farm scrap has always fascinated me. The Heron is part of this irrepressible fauna. They spring out of hedges, fields and barns. Although made of heavy metal, it is intended as light relief.

Grizedale came very near to the beginning of my involvement with three-dimensional work. It was a unique experience. It was also the opportunity to explore at a greater depth this recycling obsession of mine.

I live in West Cornwall, where the landscape is littered with the rusty debris of generations of farmers and miners. 'Rust never sleeps', they say, so it seemed the obvious thing to do to collect this scrap and allow it a new lease of life. It's a symbiotic relationship. You could call it a 'chicken and egg' situation. I use scrap and junk because they are, above all, free and easily available. The embryo of the idea is already in it. My concern is to develop it.