Willard Wigan was born in Birmingham, England in 1957 and is the creator of the smallest works of art on earth. From being a traumatised and unrecognised dyslexic child, he is now emerging as the most globally celebrated micro-miniaturist of all time and is literally capable of turning a spec of dust into a vision of true beauty.
He works in total solitude at a quiet retreat in Jersey mainly at night when there is a greater sense of peace in the world and less static electricity to interfere with the immeasurable precision and tolerances required to create the pieces.
The human hand can only work in 100th of an inch resolution. Willard's sculptures require precision to the scale of 1/1000th of an inch. To achieve such percision, willard has trained himself for years to enter a meditative state in which his heart rate and breath rate slows down. He then synchronizes the movements of the surgeon blade with his heart beats.
The sculptures can be seen only with microscopes.
The horizontal line is an eyelash!
