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BARRIE LAWRENCE (1937-2007)
Barrie Lawrence was born in 1937 in New Westminster, B.C. He has lived on the Pacific Northwest coast all his life. Self-taught, he began carving in the 1960's in the Tsimshian style to honor his Grandmother. By the late 1970's he was carving plaques, paddles and other primarily two dimensional surface carvings for commercial purposes. His work was displayed and sold in several shops and galleries including the Royal British Columbia Museum Gift Shop, Tony Hunt's Art of the Raven Gallery, and the Wounded Knee Gallery in Beverly Hills California.
His career and time commitments virtually precluded the opportunity to carve until his retirement from B.C.Tel in 1993. In 1994, Barrie began working at Cutters Tools in Victoria B.C. selling carving supplies as well as teaching carving. It was this exposure to really first class carving tools and the techniques for maintaining them that quickly expanded his carving range to deep carved items such as bowls, masks and other three dimensional sculpture.
As Barrie said " It is a wonderful exhilarating experience to begin a new career in your late fifties!"
Barrie's work can be found on Salt Spring Island exclusively at Steffich Fine Art.
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