From Page to Garden

This year, two wonderfully familiar faces have joined our Winnie-the-Pooh bronze sculpture collection – Tigger and Eeyore.

As with our earlier Christopher Robin and Friends sculptures, these new additions were modelled with close attention to E. H. Shepard’s original illustrations – to preserve that gentle mix of humour, warmth, and friendship that has made A. A. Milne’s stories so loved for nearly a century.

Our aim, as with most of our creations, is to suggest that they’ve quietly stepped from the pages of the book into the home or garden – characters we’ve known all our lives, now somehow at home among the flowers and trees.

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Capturing the Essence of Tigger 

To bring the Tigger garden sculpture to life – from 2D into 3D – it’s the rhythms that matter; the curve of the spine, the spring in the legs, the line of the tail. It’s rhythms that emerge first in sketches and studies of Shepard’s drawings, which then flow through the armature and into the clay, giving Tigger his sense of life and movement.

Capturing Tigger’s moment of explosive energy was vital. His body is suspended by a single mirrored post – later hidden by planting – to give the illusion of mid-bounce, with all four paws off the ground.

It’s about finding the right balance of movement – the spirit of a character who, as we all know, “is always bouncing.”

Sculpting Eeyore

Eeyore, by contrast, is pure stillness. He’s a ponderous character – slow, grounded, with a low centre of energy. His stance is steady, his feet turned slightly outwards, his head tilted back toward his pinned tail. There’s patience and quiet resignation in his expression.

Where Tigger is all motion, the Eeyore garden sculpture is calm reflection. The two together hold a perfect balance – the extrovert and the introvert, one bursting with life, the other quietly watching it pass by.

A Growing Family in the Hundred Acre Wood

The new bronze sculptures join Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, and Christopher Robin in a growing collection inspired by A. A. Milne’s beloved tales. It’s lovely to see how many collectors have begun curating their own Hundred Acre Wood corners at home – creating little gatherings of the characters, nestled among trees or along garden paths.

Each new piece feels like another step further into the story, and it’s wonderful to see how these sculptures come together as a family.

Looking Ahead to 100 Years of Pooh

With the 100-year anniversary of Winnie-the-Pooh coming up in 2026, it seems a fitting time to celebrate these enduring characters. We’ll be launching a small competition over on our social media to mark the occasion – more details will follow soon.