Thoroughbred Sculpture

Barry is a second generation South African, born of Scottish and Afrikaner descent. Raised and educated in Zambia in Central Africa. Barry now lives in Cape Town, near to the slopes of Table Mountain Art education was at East London art school and Johannesburg art school. His medium is bronze sculpture... His style is best described as representational. He has the professional support of some of the best art foundries in South Africa all situated in Cape Town and they provide the highest quality and most skilled work to be found anywhere. He has a background as an advertising illustrator and philatelic designer but now concentrates on his first love , sculpture His works, of limited editions, are sought by collectors and art lovers globally who identify with conservation, wildlife, African ethnic themes and the vanishing cultures of Southern Africa. He also enjoys portraiture and was commissioned to do the bust of Nelson Mandela which stands in front of the South African Parliament Building. He is regularly commissioned by the South African National Heritage Project to do life-size full figure portrait statues of historical figures. Among these are OR Tambo, Mahatma Gandhi, Louis Van Mauritius, Johannes Van der Kemp. Ahmed Kathrada He was commissioned to do the life-size figure of Nelson Mandela which will be the lead figure in the Long Walk to Freedom at Heritage Park. This will be a procession of 400 t0 500 bronze heritage figures commissioned to artists from all over South Africa. Barry's work is renowned internationally and can be seen in boardrooms and reception areas of companies, private collections and game lodges throughout the world.