Richard Kolb

Creating Yardbirds turns work into fun! Each Yardbird is unique whimsical & guaranteed to bring pleasure to its owner. A Yardbird is a great conversation piece; many people have fun identifying the scrap & reject parts cleverly used to make them & they marvel at the way a simple tilt of a head can give a sculpture so much personality.

I use mostly scrap & recycled metal parts to create metal birds, critters, dogs and cats. Yardbirds are a great way to contribute to the good of the environment; they are saving rejected metal parts from ending up in a landfill & they do wonders for improving the looked of their owners’ homes or yards! All Yardbirds & Junkyard Dogs & Cats are proudly HANDCRAFTED in KENTUCKY!

My medium is metal sculpture. Some of the materials used include garden tools, car parts, farm implements, bicycle parts & mufflers, which are welded together.

I believe that the things that make us happiest in life when we obtain them are not always the necessities of life, but usually the things that we do not need make us the happiest. And that’s what Yardbirds are all about-happiness!

I am a graduate of the University of Kentucky, a lifelong resident of Kentucky, and a juried member of the Kentucky Craft Marketing Program. I am also a member of the American Craft Council.