Local
Artist Pete Baker combines his passion for art with
a background in engineering to create magical work
in metal.
Inspired
by mythology, dreams and forgotten worlds, his skilful
expression of these themes, using welding torch, anvil
and angle grinder, is quite remarkable: looking at
the fluidity and movement in his pieces, you could
be forgiven for forgetting that they are made from
such rigid materials. In the galleries, fairies, dragons
and demons rub shoulders with obelisks, bikes, horses
and even chickens, each made with Pete’s eye
for detail and fertile imagination. His smallest works
are under 20 cm tall, his largest over 3 metres. You’ll
note links back to Rackham, Gaudi, Bosch and many
others whose art combines technical mastery with a
sense of the fantastic, but we hope you’ll agree
that Pete avoids cliché and imitation with
a vision all his own.
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