On a modest 60-square-meter space near the entry, Cebu-based British sculptor James Doran-Webb made his debut as an exhibitor at the 2012 Chelsea Flower Show.
The centerpiece, “Rutting Stags,” two colliding male deer chiseled from kalachuchi driftwood, caught the eye of Queen Elizabeth, a patron of the show’s organizer, the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS).
Instead of going straight to the floral displays, she spent a few minutes admiring Doran-Webb’s sculpted animals from his Mandaue workshop, while her lady-in-waiting whispered, “That’s the chap I was telling you about. He works in the Philippines.”
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