Sculptor/Welder, Mike Peery is a Utah native, working out of his studio.  At five years old after watching a welder at work, Peery took to the craft and became a welder by trade, by welding together peices of his imagination out of scrap metal, car and bicycle parts, old fences, and other bits of machinery.  Peery creates his ornamental charactors,often metal giants that stand over eight feet tall.

One such monument-The St. Francis of Assisi, stands guard day and night outside Metal Maddness, constructed of pencil rod, weighing over fourteen hundred pounds with arms outstretched and bearing a chain metal beard.  Other realistic works such as scaled down Harley Davidson Motorcyles, trains,  a helicopter/complete with spinning propeller, rocket rex, giant dog, giraffes, horses, fish, appeal to the collector who appreciates the rugged, raw, machine look of Peery's work, which sometimes has the expression of creatures in motion, most of his work is in private collections around the world.