"Barre Pinske - Modern, Folk, and Fine Art"

Welcome to the Illana Joffrey Fine Art & High Craft web site. I'm Barre Pinske. I have been a professional artist for 25 years. My new project opening the Illana Joffrey Gallery in Chester Vermont is going well. Although I started my career as a wood sculptor you will see I work in many mediums. I have a very nice collector base and over the years I have received both local and national press. On this site you will find many images and much information about me and my art work. Selected artworks are in categories shown from the button bars on either side of this page. To just see images of my art work click the photo archive button on the top left of the main page. The new photo link will come up. I have 100 photos of my work in the archive. I intend to update the web site now and then I'm working on an items for sale page now. I'm excited about my move to VT. and I'll have pictures of the project at some point. Please send an e-mail with questions to Barrepinske@hotmail.com if you are interested in my work or just want to say hi. Currently, I'm making a lot of chainsaw carved bears as bread an butter to support my new project. I'm really looking forward to the future here it's a great space in a really nice area. Thank you, Barre

Here I am with a chair made from branches and resin. The chair took 300 hours to create. The chair has a plywood core for structure. I glued ridged foam to the chair sculpted it to shape and then covered the foam with a resin, wood dust and fiberglass shell. The branches were attached one by one to the shell and flooded with filled and pigmented resin. The chair is in the collection of Dr. Ryne Johnson. 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.

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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.

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