A North Kensington artist is fighting to save her sculpture which has graced Shepherd's Bush Green for 19 years from demolition.

Marisa Rueda, 67, spent two years producing the one tonne concrete work called The Man Who Blows the Clouds for Hammersmith and Fulham Council, with the £6,000 cost split between the London Arts Council and the borough.

Now officials have decreed the statue, which stands in a children's playground, will be have to go when the green is re-vamped as part of the Westfield development.

The artist from Balliol Road, North Kensington, who from 1986 to 1988 was Hammersmith and Fulham's artist in residence,  said: "The council has told me the decision already has been taken - they said my work has no place in the new design for the Green.

"The playground is being moved near to the Bush Theatre and I do not see why my statue cannot move with it."

Ms Rueda wants to find a company to sponsor the renovation of the statue and to possibly move it to another site.

Paul Bristow, Cabinet Member for Residents' Services, said residents have been consulted about the green's renovation.

He added: "During the last exhibition we did not receive any objections to the obvious fact that the sculpture would be removed."

To find out more about Ms Rueda's efforts to preserve her work, go to savetheman.co.uk