Needle Art by Willard Wigan

Willard Wigan was born in Birmingham, England in 1957 and is the creator of the smallest works of art on earth. He has a learning disability (Dyslexia), but has talented hands.

Wigan uses a tiny surgical blade to carve his microscopic figures out of rice, grains of sand and sugar, which are then mounted on pinheads. Willard can create a masterpiece within the eye of a tiny sewing needle, on the head of a pin, the tip of an eyelash or a grain of sand, spending months meticulously carving his materials into micro-figures.

Statue of Liberty in the eye of a needle

Titanic on the tip of a pin

Snow White & The 7 Dwarfs in the eye of a needle

Girl with balloon is standing on an eyelash

Winston Churchill in the eye of a needle

Elvis on a pin head

Ship on a crystal

Cast of Peter Pan on a fish hook

Six wives of Henry VIII

String Quartet

Marilyn Monroe on diamond

Elephant on a pin head

22 ct gold dragonfly on the tip of a needle

Frankie Dettori riding on a pinhead

Cat on hair

Visitors view exhibits through a microscope