Robert Barley To Design Decorative Fair’s Battersea Marquee Lobby For April 2010

Sculpture & Fantasy Garden At The Spring Decorative Fair

As already mentioned, the Battersea Park marquee lobby at the next Spring Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair will be designed and populated by Robert Barley. Robert has long been an exhibitor at the Decorative Fair being an art dealer, historian and classicist as well as beng a celebrated sculptor.

You can get a little flavour and contact detail from the Robert Barley website (though I had some trouble seeing the illustrative pictures).  Obviously as far as the Decorative Fair is concerned, we want you to come back to the Fair in April.  Details from the Decorative Fair visitors page.

The sympathetic reaction of his peers to Robert’s early sculpture when he first took it up seriously several years ago, encouraged Robert, and his ‘hobby’ started to be a passion. His small output was rapidly snapped up and gradually his pieces have found their way in to many major private collections around the world.

When Robert works on his sculptures, he finds he writes creatively at the same time, the two complementing each other. Robert lists some of his hero writers as Edith Sitwell, Denton Welch, JRR Tolkein, Evelyn Waugh and EF Benson. He has also been profoundly influenced by the Surrealists. Subjects he finds himself returning to time and again, and which permeate all his work, are Memento Mori, The Crucifixion, flowers and birds.

Robert Barley’s work will be displayed in the Foyer of the Decorative Fair.  All sculptures will be for sale.