John Lopez, from South Dakota

 'I am a sculptor and love to create. I started welding sculptures together using scrap iron after my Aunt Effie's death. I built a cemetery around her head stone on the ranch and it all started from there.'

Howdy: Based in the town of Lemmon, South Dakota, the 43-year-old has created full-size representations of creatures including a horse, buffalo and even a cowboy atop a triceratops

These stunning sculptures are the work of artist John Lopez who welds the pieces from abandoned farm machinery

The Steel Stallion

Black Hawk is a scrap iron sculpture of a life-size plow horse pulling a single bottom plow

John Lopez works on Black Hawk, a scrap iron sculpture of a life-size plow horse pulling a single bottom plow