Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Arks of Barks from Barry Gregg Clayworks

Jeff (remember Jeff's Shutters?) needed a birthday present for the wife and invited me to tag along to Barry Gregg Clayworks. Lucky me.


Barry and Parker, his 3-legged dog, greeted us. I can't believe I didn't get a picture of Parker, the inspiration for Barry's happy bark ark period. Here's an ark.
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Bark sticks.
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Moma and baby dogs.
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Salty dogs and peppery dogs.
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Barry shows and sells all over the southeast. His work will catch your eye in a gallery or show and make you smile. This is from Mudfire more than a year ago, my first encounter with Barry's work.
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Plenty of birds in the bark arks.
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Barry's yard is a menagerie of totems.
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Barry also models humans and rabbits when he's of a mind to.
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Here is the whole "3 Dog Night"
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Jeff on the left with Barry on the right bringing home Stef's ark of barks.
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Thanks to Jeff for the invitation. Thanks to Barry Gregg for the work. Thanks to Ms. Parker the 3-legged dog for the inspiration.

Terry
terry @ surf303.com

8 comments:

  1. Terry, It was a pleasure having you along. I enjoy Stephanie's(?) Bark Ark so much that i carry it from room to room with me.

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  2. I love those salt and pepper shakers!

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  3. Oh, so, so cute! Guaranteed to make you smile!
    I'm sure Jeff's wife will figure out who he really bought the Bark Ark for! ;)

    P.S. I finally figured out that if I enable 3rd party cookies, I can comment from my google acct.
    Oy!

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  4. Susan, thanks so much for getting the cookies together.

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  5. Those salt and pepper dogs are precious.

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  6. Terry, how fun I love to see unique works of art. Are those garden stakes I spotted? They are wonderful!

    Karena
    Art by Karena

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  7. Karena, I think the dogs (and rabbits) on sticks are garden stakes.

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