In a home littered with sculptures, paintings and a hand-painted coffin, nonagenarian Sandy Chambers is busy working on sketches for his next life-sized sculpture.

He is 92 "and a half", and despite creating his own headstone and coffin, the master sculptor is still working full time around town in Boyup Brook, 270 kilometres south of Perth.

"I've always done art, always," he said, thumbing through old prints of his work.

"It tells a story. It's life, and life is an adventure, a big one."

Sandy Chamber's life certainly has been an adventure, starting early last century in England where he won a county art prize at age 13.

Sandy Chamber's home and garden is littered with hundreds of paintings and sculptures, including a coffin and headstone he made for himself. ( ABC News: Meggie Morris )

"That started me off and I managed to get a [sculpting] apprenticeship, which only lasted four years because I was called up in wartime."

He went on to work in the coal mines as a Bevin boy, before serving in the military after the war ended.

"'Can you swim?' [the recruiter] says," Mr Chambers said, recounting the draft process.

"I says 'Why, haven't you got any ships left?' He says 'Smart arse. Army'."

'I don't want to sit and ferment'

He has cycled around France grading hostels, been an in-house carpenter for English nobility, run a parachuting school, and has spent 20 years breeding and training camels from the Gibson desert.

He was once buried by hundreds of kilograms of sculpting sand, has survived a car crash and several surgeries, but he has not slowed down — much to the dismay of his doctor and his wife, Jacqui.

When Mr Chamber's doctor asked him why he didn't retire and get a hobby, the "smart arse" that got him sent into the army answered.

"I told him 'I've got a hobby now'," he said. "Doc says 'What are you doing?' I said 'It's called W.O.R.K'."

"I don't want to sit and ferment in an old people's home," Mr Chambers added.

Despite refusing to slow down, Sandy Chambers created his own headstone and coffin when he was in his 70s. ( ABC News: Meggie Morris )

Mrs Chambers said as much as she wishes he would wind down, she admitted "he won't, so I just have to put up with him".

"We've had a very busy life, we're not like a couple that will sit and watch television all afternoon like we should at our age. I couldn't bare that," she added.

The pair have built two houses together, one in England "at night, over a year, brick by brick between us," Mrs Chambers said.

The other on the edge of a tiny town in Western Australia's south-west where they still live.

'Here lies the body of blah blah blah'

Since arriving in Boyup Brook 55 years ago, Mr Chambers has painted the town red, yellow, blue and green.

His quirky murals and sculptures are dotted around the town, telling the stories of traditional owners, pioneer women, and today's residents.

Mr Chambers' quirky murals and sculptures are dotted around the town. ( ABC News: Meggie Morris )

At home, some of his work reflects his own life, including a headstone he sculpted for himself when he was in his 70s.

"The word 'gimmick' comes to mind. That's all. I'd just always wanted to do a sculpture of myself," he said.

"It's all ready for my family when I finally give up the ghost.

"And I've left enough room for 'here lies the body of blah blah blah'."

The headstone is paired with a coffin the artist starting painting years ago.

"I only got one piece done, then the whole family said 'don't paint anymore, you've got to leave a space — to be continued'," he said.

"I'd like to include a little window so I can see who's on top of the coffin.

"You've got to be mad in this world."

Writing his memoirs

A cameleer, a coal miner, a carpenter and an artist, Mr Chambers has lived enough lives to fill several shelves.

So he has begun to write his memoirs.

Mr Chambers bred wild camels from the Gibson desert with his wife for 20 years on their south-west property. ( ABC News: Meggie Morris )

"I think we'll need five books," Mrs Chambers said as her husband launched into the story of how the couple came to breed camels.

On a visit to see his son working in Warburton, Mr Chambers fell in love with a baby camel sitting in the tray of a ute.

One day his son asked him to go to Perth to bring some passengers down to the south-west, a request Mr Chambers initially protested.

"But he told me 'They can't read, they're camels'. So I jumped up, went with a trailer and I brought back baby Solomon," he said.

"Then when he was three years old we bought him two ladies."

So for 20 years, Mr and Mrs Chambers asked truck drivers returning from supply runs up north to carry camels back in their empty trailers.