Westberg’s  Wacky World of Whimsical Welding
 has been open since March of 2006

The sculptures are made of objects discarded by society in its quest to be a throw away world.  Jon has been recycling castoff’s and items of interest for the past 30  years first through jig saw like driftwood wall hangings created with tiny beach wood pieces from Long Island Sound (1970’s) , then   Birdhouses and rustic furniture  made in California(late 1980’s and 1990’s) and now through Salvaged Metal Sculptures made in Milford, CT.

Jon has always had an eye for making something out of an object that was made for something else.  From the early years of driftwood birdhouses created from flotsam and jetsam(detritus) found on the shores of San Francisco Bay, he graduated to rustic indoor and outdoor furniture and did that for a number of Galleries and Stores in California until his coming home to Connecticut in 2000.  The need to create has never abated.  Without much driftwood in Long Island Sound he turned to antique and vintage house wood from as local as Milford and Fairfield and all the way up to Bethel and beyond.
 
Being influenced by the nationally known metal artist Judie Bomberger, from Novato, CA, he toiled in wood as she created fun pieces from steel.  He fooled around with shovel heads as masks and did a little welding in those wonderful California days, but nothing he could look at with great pride.  The year 2006 changed all that.