David Bosma Art / Ohio
Built like a machine.
Shaped like the wild.
Metal sculpture, gates, railings, fountains, and etched glass by David Bosma. Forty years of welding, fabrication, and manufacturing go into every piece.
Dave at the grinder. Fish and glass table in progress.
The Shop
Factory methods. Wild subjects.
Most metal art comes out of an art studio. Dave’s comes out of a fabrication shop.
He works in stainless steel, copper, brass, and aluminum with techniques borrowed from manufacturing, then shapes them into fish, crabs, branches, and trees you might find along a riverbank. When a piece needs wood or glass, he builds that in too. The result looks organic and holds up like equipment.
40+
years of welding, fabrication, and manufacturing
4
metals: stainless steel, copper, brass, and aluminum
3
materials he combines in one piece: metal, wood, and glass
The Work
Four ways to put metal to work.
Sculpture for the yard or the wall. Gates and railings that people stop to look at. Fountains. Glass carved by hand at the scale of a mirror or an entire wall. Pick a category to see the pieces up close.
01 / Sculpture
Eagles, fish, and creatures
02 / Gates & Railings
Functional home art
03 / Fountains
Water, copper, and steel
04 / Etched Glass
Sand-carved glass
Featured Piece / Available
The Eagle
2,215 feathers, every one hand-hammered by Dave. The color is not paint. It is corrosion, brought out with a patina formula he developed himself. This piece is for sale.
From the Shop Floor
The welds are the work.
A gate is a structure before it is a sculpture. Dave builds his pieces the way he built production parts for four decades: square, clean, and ground smooth, so the craftsmanship holds up to a close look and to the weather.
Etched Glass
Glass, carved by hand. Up to the size of a wall.
Sand-carved glass for tables, mirrors, and full architectural panels. The same eye that shapes a steel branch draws the line in the glass.
Commissions
Bring the idea. Dave builds it.
A gate for the drive. A railing that turns a staircase into a centerpiece. A sculpture for the garden, an etched mirror, a table that mixes metal, wood, and glass. Custom work starts with a conversation.
01
Talk it through
Tell Dave what you have in mind and where it will live. Photos, sketches, and measurements help.
02
Design
He works out the form, the materials, and how the piece gets built and mounted.
03
Build
Cutting, forming, welding, and finishing happen in his shop.
04
Finish
A final review before your piece goes to its new home.
Meet Dave
A welder who never stopped building.
David Bosma has spent more than forty years welding, fabricating, and working in manufacturing. Metal sculpture is where that experience goes when the production work is done. His love of nature and wildlife drives most of what he makes, and his manufacturing background shapes how he makes it.
He is a husband and a father, and he works out of Ohio.
“If you can dream it up, you came to the right place.”
David Bosma