Willard Wigan was born in Birmingham, in 1957 and is the creator of the smallest works of art in the world.

Willard was humiliated as a child, due to his severe dyslexia; to this day he still cannot read or write well. Told on numerous occasions that he would amount to nothing, Willard retreated to a world where his work could not be seen and therefore could not be criticised. He began building small homes for ants and insects, eventually developing an ability to sculpt in an unprecedented and truly remarkable way.

To create his works, Willard has developed a method of placing himself into a meditative state, slowing his heartbeat, sculpting between beats, in the knowledge that the mere pulse in his finger could destroy his work.

 

Willard’s work is an accomplishment of total harmony of body and mind; showing that if one person can create the impossible, then we can all transcend our limiting beliefs of what we are capable of.