Characters in pewter on driftwood
 
Yvette uses wooden moulds for casting her pewter animals and people. Pewter is a beautiful and underrated metal. It is subtle, malleable, pliant and makes wonderfully crisp castings. Pewter no longer contains lead. It is made from tin, antimony and copper. Cast pewter will pick up every last aspect of its mould. Pewter also responds to minute differences in temperature so no two castings come out of a mould the same way. Some of them have a creamy texture, some of them really hold the grain, and some of them have a feathering like frost on a window.