Barrington Coleby

(1945 – 2014)

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Was best known as a Street Artist, painting his large size pastel street paintings on the streets

of Basel, Lucerne and Berne (where he made his home for the last 30 years of his life).

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He also produced an enormous number of fine pencil drawings, mainly of wild animals and Norse Gods,

and in the studio many large and powerful canvases in both oil and acrylic, depicting narrative scenes,

portraits, animals, landscapes, as well as works of symbolism and mythology and abstraction.

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Throughout his life he sold or gifted his work to private collectors all over the world.

Of his large pastel street paintings, one of them, “Lord of the Pass” hangs in the Natural History Museum

of Basel, and another, “The Gathering” (inspired by Kenneth Graham’s book The Wind In The Willows),

can be seen in the Kinderspital in Lucerne.