Abayomi Barber just turned 90. That’s 70 decades of creating paintings and sculptures exploring the real and the surreal.
To celebrate his birthday we’ve put up images of some of the pieces that have passed through our doors in recent times. There are sculptures he created in the sixties and seventies that detail his time in London. The sketch of Bryan for instance. Bryan’s mother had decided to have a child with a different man while married. Her husband was happy to care of the child – a situation Barber found both intriguing and heat-warming.
There are sketches of his hands – his fascination with the tool of his trade. There are instances of the surreal canvases that defined his output in the eighties.
It’s a small but hopefully interesting sampling of the art of this wonderful man.
