About us
Following installation, it started to get attention with people stopping to take photos, asking where we bought it and then whether we made anything else.
This interest led to more and more sculptures working only at weekends and bank holidays until in May 2017 we decided to start MET Sculptures
as a separate company.
In the future we will be making more, larger outdoor sculptures, giving the option of electroplating smaller sculptures in Nickel, Chrome and other metals
and with our electrical and robotics knowledge we intend to start including backlighting and animation to some projects.
In 2014 father and son Digby and Philip Maxwell started a company called Maxwell Electrotechnical Ltd,
an offshoot from their Electrical Contracting company Electrical Safety Systems Ltd which they’ve ran since 1992.
The intention of the new company was to allow work on some more specialist services which didn’t quite fit in with
the main companies work such as Hazardous Area (explosive atmosphere) work, electrical control panels and Robotics.
During 2015, Philip Maxwell started working on a number of robot designs which were being developed for remote
control, allowing an operator to carry out tasks at height or in dangerous locations without putting themselves at risk
and for security, rescue and education.
To accomplish this we invested in various workshop equipment for building metal bodywork such as plasma cutters,
welders and sheet metal fabrication equipment and learnt how to use them.
Late in 2015, due to a lack of ideas for a Christmas present, we decided ,as we had the equipment, we could try
making a garden sculpture, this led us to start work on a small dragon head, which gradually grew, eventually
ending up over 9ft tall!
