ELECTED IN 2019
Intrinsically artistic and previously trained as a precision engineer, Barry Davies started a small business in 1989 as a cabinet maker. He introduced carving to embellish his furniture which proved popular with clients. The carving led to sculpture, and an Open University course in Art History.
Davies was fascinated by Michelangelo and Donatello who proportioned their work using the Golden ratio and the Fibonacci sequence. He has sculpted portrait busts of Shakespeare, Joan of Arc and Julius Caesar from solid blocks of Carrara marble. He also sculpted a statue of Bishop William Morgan who translated the Bible from Hebrew to Welsh.
Davies' passion for anthropology, paleontology and anatomy has led him to not only create bronze sculptures, but to tutor classes in clay modelling and lecture in these subjects. He has exhibited his work in the UK and Europe including at the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
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