Michael Barter

Out & About

The annual ‘Burnham Art Trail’, 21st June – 29th June 2008, had 30 contemporary artists and makers showing their work at 25 venues throughout the town. The week was a great success with plenty of people visiting the town to follow the trail. Here are a couple of pictures of my work in situ. I was exhibiting at The Crooked Cottage in Burnham-on-Crouch.

 

        

 

I also hope to exhibit at Southminster Flower Show again this year.

 

Dates for Burnham Week, in Burnham-on-Crouch, can be obtained from their web site,

 

I can be found at the Big Green Gathering, near Cheddar Gorge, around August each year. I will either be on my own or with Tim and Sue Royan, makers of some very beautiful Welsh Lovespoons. Look out for the large green ex-library bus with Celtic decoration and the awning under which our work will be laid out.

 

More of my work is already on show at various venues around the county, whether because it was commissioned privately or for a public place. There is a chainsaw carved dragon situated at Danbury Park. This piece was executed in partnership with Paul Sharp, a fellow artist and sculptor. A cowled monk figure is sited at Marks Hall Estate in the private gardens there. A full-sized jointed figure sits in the Friary Gardens in Maldon. Visitors are welcome to move him into various poses.

 

If you keep your eyes open you may come across my work in some of the oddest of places. A phenomenon in the area around Southminster has seen strange things appearing that bear a remarkable resemblance to my own style. Fallen logs and the odd gate post or two have suddenly acquired faces.

 

It’s as though the local landscape is coming alive ..........