Bara and Richard are full-time Vancouver Island artists with 30 years experience working in a wide variety of mediums. Richard is a wood carver and stone sculptor and was a full-time production potter in the 60's and 70's in Winnipeg. Bara is a painter, sculptor and collage artist and teacher. Both have worked on public space projects and have facilitated many different education programs on Vancouver Island and other parts of Canada.Together, working in concrete, they have discovered their own unique mixes plus etching and glazing techniques.
Bara and Richard's leaves are made with their own specially developed concrete mix, reinforced with polyfibres and nylon mesh.The leaves are made individually by hand and coloured with metallic salts in acid base which react with the concrete to give it a patina.

Artist's Statement

"Our work represents both our individual talents and our combined creative energy - we often work together on the same piece and constantly inspire each other with new ideas."