Sam Holland: “Having decided upon a pose 'in action' I set to work in September 2003. Realising that my studio was large enough, but not high enough, I erected a temporary steel and canvas studio on the land next to our barge on the River Medway.

The first stage was to construct a sturdy metal armature (skeleton). Things began to take shape quickly and before long I had a clay man at the wheel of a lifeboat underneath the canvas.

There was a storm in November and although puny by Moelfre standards the wind was gusting from the southwest at over 65 miles per hour. In the morning the only thing that remained in my studio was Dic Evans, standing resolute. Nor did he mind much when in February there was a freak high tide exacerbated by the closing of the Thames Barrier, which left him up to his ankles in the River Medway. I think it was at this point that John Payne, of the Moelfre partnership, said that Dic deserved another medal for surviving Twinney Wharf !”

The Sculpture of Dic Evans is cast in fine art bronze. He stands 7 ft 6 inches high (2.3 meters) and weighs approximately 400 Kg. The plinth is a granite boulder kindly donated by Hogans' Gwyndy Quarry.

The plinth alone stands 5-1/2 ft high and weighs approximately six tonnes, making the sculpture an imposing 14 ft high.