{"id":396086,"date":"2017-06-16T17:45:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T17:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/06\/16\/proud-mum-cuts-her-bush-into-shape-of-sons-face-myjoyonline-com\/"},"modified":"2017-06-16T17:45:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T17:45:19","slug":"proud-mum-cuts-her-bush-into-shape-of-sons-face-myjoyonline-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/06\/16\/proud-mum-cuts-her-bush-into-shape-of-sons-face-myjoyonline-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Proud mum cuts her bush into shape of son\u2019s face\n&#8211; MyJoyOnline.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<!--               \n\n<div class=\"in-ad\">\n\n\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1495043641385-0' style='height:250px; width:300px;'>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p>An artist has taken her obsession with heads and portraits to her garden shaping one of her hedges into her son\u2019s face.<\/p>\n<p>Art graduate Michelle Foley, 48, has trimmed two of her garden hedges into 12ft tall heads into family members, one like son Brennan, the other like partner, Andrew.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle who saw the need to tidy up her hedge growth as the perfect excuse to take her artistic talent outside, is now eyeing up a third hedge depicting her daughter.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline.com_InArticle_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Michelle said: \u2018I\u2019ve been making heads for years, I did an art degree at Birmingham City University where all my work revolved around heads.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I\u2019m really interested in gardening too so when I had to cut my hedges it only seemed natural that heads came out.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Andrew looks uncannily like him and Brennan is perhaps not quite recognisable because the glasses aren\u2019t on yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I\u2019m making the glasses out of things from a skip largely using odd bits of plastic and I think when they go on you won\u2019t be able to tell them apart.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/pri_43235754.jpg\" style=\"height:399px; width:600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Michelle who recently started running her own catering business from a vintage campervan, first took to hedge-head trimming six years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The mother-of-two wants to transform her entire garden in Harborne, Birmingham, which she describes as well-hidden and overgrown into a gallery of recognisable faces.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I\u2019ve got a lot of hedges in my garden which I\u2019d love to get my hands on. My daughter who\u2019s a bit disgusted there isn\u2019t one of her yet is going to be next in line.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/pri_43235454-e1497508368786.jpg\" style=\"height:529px; width:600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2018They require attention little and often, a trim every now and then is all that\u2019s needed to maintain their shape.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Nobody\u2019s ever really seen them because they\u2019re in a really overgrown part of the garden and nobody\u2019s noticed them until now despite being there for years.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Her son Brennan Black, 21, who is in his final year at Cardiff University was the first to see himself larger than life before being joined three years later Michelle\u2019s partner Andrew Batterham, 51.<\/p>\n<p>Brennan\u2019s hedge portrait is almost twice the size of his entire body and former Royal Engineer Andrew who is as tall as Brennan in real life has a slightly smaller hedge.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An artist has taken her obsession with heads and portraits to her garden shaping one of her hedges into her son\u2019s face. 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