About Barry Davies sculptor
Bronze statuary and sculptures of historical figures and Natural History with an anatomically precise and thoroughly researched approach, supported by mathematical applications and adopting a methodology used by high renaissance masters. My concept is to capture a moment of heightened emotion and thought depicted through contrapposto and an active use of space. Working from my studios in Mid Wales I first design then calculate scale and proportion to a human or animal figure, evolving from a skeletal frame to musculature and surface texture. My work must convey a boldnes...Read More
Barry Davies sculptor
Established in 19891stDibs seller since 2023
Featured Pieces
Lion
Located in Oswestry, GB
This artwork is described beautifully by Art critic and curator Salvatore Russo at an exhibition in Uffizi Gallery, Florence 2016 - "Barry Davies, a sculptor able to state the streng...
Category
16th Century Renaissance Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Paranthropus Robustus
Located in Oswestry, GB
Paranthropus Robustus.
An early man (hominid), one of the Australopiths from the subepochs of the early to middle Pleistocene period 2.6 - 1.5 million years ago. Some distinctive fea...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Naturalistic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Granite, Bronze
Trilobite fossil
Located in Oswestry, GB
This trilobite fossil was delicately hand carved in herculite (a fine casting plaster). These marine arthropods first appeared around 521 million years ago living in the Cambrian per...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Gold Leaf
Snail shell
Located in Oswestry, GB
Always greatly fascinated and sculpturally inspired by a simple yet geometrically complex snail shell. I moulded an actual shell and modelled the base. However the technical difficul...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Stenopterygius Quadriscissus
Located in Oswestry, GB
Stenopterygius quadriscissus is an ichthyosaur, an extinct animal that lived during the Jurassic period whose body shape closely resembled that of today's fast-swimming fishes such a...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
White tailed sea eagle and crab
Located in Oswestry, GB
This white tailed sea eagle is depicted here on a rock on the shore of a remote wild Scottish Isle (Outer Hebrides). Hiding beneath the rock is a brown crab...
Category
16th Century Baroque Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Perseus' sword
Located in Oswestry, GB
The images of this sculpture are of a larger original than the scaled down version for sale here. This sword was a gift from Zeus to Perseus to defeat the gorgon Medusa. Davies desig...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Renaissance Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Urn
Located in Oswestry, GB
Davies designed this urn by drawing on extensive research culminating in adopting classical elements from Graeco-Roman antiquity.
It's elegant shape is subtly embellished with a Roma...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Renaissance Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Perseus and Fame proclaiming the birth of Pegasus
Located in Oswestry, GB
This neo-classical style sculpture is of Perseus the son of Zues and Danae is ordered by King Polydectes to slay the gorgon Medusa. With the gift of a polished shield from Athena, a ...
Category
Early 17th Century Baroque Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Xiphactinus
Located in Oswestry, GB
Xiphactinus (higher classification Ichthyodectidae) lived during the late Cretaceous period 90 - 65 million years ago.It was a predatory fish weighing approximately 1000lbs and measu...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Naturalistic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Greyhound
Located in Oswestry, GB
What is unique about this artwork is the grace and elegance of the greyhound but designed in a most difficult stance frought with technical challenges. Yet the result offers a stance...
Category
Early 17th Century Baroque Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Perseus
Located in Oswestry, GB
Perseus was in Greek mythology the son of Zeus and Danae, founder of Mycenae and of the Perseid dynasty. He beheaded the Gorgon Medusa for King Polydectes and saved Andromeda from th...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Granite, Bronze
