Swarfhorse was inspired by Anthony’s first sight of Brian at work sat astride his ‘horsin’.  Anthony remembers: ‘a golden mane of sparks flying from the grindstone, like a warrior from another age.’ The scene made him recall an earlier sculpture that he had made: a life size interpretation of the war horse buried alongside an Anglo Saxon Chieftain at Sutton Hoo.  Anthony used the mould from that sculpture to create this work. It was positioned in front of the grindstone so that it would collect all the swarf as Brian worked. Swarf is the ultrafine grindings of metal produced whilst grinding steel blades. It took six months for the mould to fill, it was then dried out fully before the cast was revealed.