I had promised to have this finished by April 2009, so obviously I’m delighted to have finished it before it goes a full year past my own self-imposed ‘due date’!

Like most of his erstwhile and largely forgotten friends Gruber is keen on world domination, although it’s perhaps telling that he and his cohorts are largely forgotten given their compete ineptitude when it comes to matters of actually achieving world domination.  Indeed his most well known cousin, Gravalash, was defeated by his inability to get off a high shelf and whilst such trifling difficulties are unlikely to be of much difficulty to this fellow the complexities of reaching the door handle have limited the range of Gruber and the fulfilment of his innocuous plans.

He dreams of breaking loose and running free as he once did, although he is still haunted by the nightmare of attempting to cross a field of snow that proved to be too cold for his tippy-toes, alas what else is left for him other than to stand at the window and wave at the post lady …

Gruber stands at 18.5″ / 47cm tall, is 16.25″ / 41cm from the tip of one horn to the tip of the other, and is approx 11″ / 28cm deep.

He is available for sale, to a good (and secure) home in our Coriandr shop, here – additional images are also there.

Well, the demonic papier mache sculpture is here … finally!

Gravalsh, a small and relatively friendly little demon intent on world domination, or failing that bringing about an apocalypse. Happily, he’s too small and of lowly intellect so the odds of achieving either of these goals are rather limited.

He does however excel at looking surprised by any number of innocuous and otherwise unsurprising events, most usually his failed attempts to escape from high shelves this, generally proves to be the first and most difficult hurdle to his erstwhile schemes.

Below you can see one of the rare occasions he escaped from his shelf and made it as far as the garden, fortunately his schemes were foiled by large wavy green things that erupted from the ground and prevented him making a nuisance of himself … yes big thanks to the season of spring, daffodils and a light breeze!

Gravalash has been securely locked up in a brilliant white padded cell until we can find a secure unit for him, personally I think he just needs a loving home and some positive influences in his life, something that’s been sadly lacking in his life to date!?

Available for sale in our etsy shop