Having talent is like owning a huge warehouse filled with very cool things. To get things out of the warehouse an artist needs time, inspiration and patrons. Many artist's can't afford the light bill in the warehouse not to mention the heat. When collectors buy it creates an opportunity for the artist to enter the building and look around for the next wonderful piece to bring out for the world to see.

Ideas and patronage are equally important as talent. Whether it's something simple as an exercise or an opportunity to push creative limits all commissioned work is important. Collectors have lead me to creative places I would not have gone alone. That experience is a big part of what I love about creativity and quality relationships.

As a young man I was told by many people I had a gift. When I needed to make a career choice I decided if I did not pursue an art career and share my gift it would be like a present left wrapped and unopened. That was twenty five years ago. As a maturing artist I look forward to more success and working with more of the interesting types of people who have passed my way. We have one shot at life. Having a goal of creating significant work with respect to art and meeting cool people make my life a truly wonderful experience. Thanks to all of you who have given me the opportunity to keep creating.


Please tune in to see the new Studio Web cam!

Click here and if I'm in the studio you can watch me work. If I'm not there there is a nice slide show of recent and past works click the menu button in the ustream window to see slide show.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/barre-pinske-studio

Art for sale click here

This is the new Items for sale link. I have some of the very items available in the gallery available to you online. Check out the Pinske Hydraulic chain saw in operation from this link too!

Although I started my career as a wood sculptor I work in many mediums. Images of selected artworks are shown in categories by clicking the button bars on either side of top of this page. To see the most images of my art work click the photo archive button on the top left. I have over 100 photos of my work in the archive.

This chair is made from branches and resin. The chair took 300 hours to create. The chair has a plywood core for structure which I glued ridged foam to and sculpted it to shape. The foam was covered with a resin and wood dust mix. The branches were attached one by one to the shell and flooded with filled and pigmented resin. Click on the Chairs Button Bar to the right then on the twig chair to see pictures of the Twig Chair in process it is really cool.<

All Web Site images enlarge by click unless it is a link.

This is a funny picture of me with a sculpted foam eagle head. The foam core was coated with filled resin and fiberglass. The foam is carved with a wire brush on a die grinder and sanding tools. The static cling of the foam is a pain but it carves easy and will not rot like wood. This sculpture was a commission for Steven Tyler. The eagle head is off of the deck on his home recording studio.


Here I am with Steven Tyler in my New Bedford Gallery in 2002. Steven and his then wife Teresa came down to see the 23' slide I was making as an alternative way to get from the main house to the pool house. I made the Paper Love seat we are sitting on in 1998.