[1][2] In the late 1980s he completed two portrait commissions, of Richard Branson and Anita Roddick, and afterwards became artist-in-residence at Anita Roddick's The Body Shop, creating many sculptures for the grounds of the company's headquarters in Littlehampton.
[2][6] Penny has written that "when I reflect on my work over the past forty years I've found it's the idea in conjunction with the making that completes the experience."
After they were shown in 1999 in the millennium exhibition The Shape of the Century; they were purchased by the Canary Wharf Group.
[7][8] "Man and Ball", of 1995, is a bronze sculpture, height 1.84 metres (6 ft 0 in), commissioned by Ransomes Europark in Ipswich, where it is situated.
[9] "Man and Animal", of 2004, is a bronze sculpture, height 2 metres (6 ft 7 in), in Camomile Walk, Portishead, Somerset.