This Bajan landmark might stop you in your tracks — animal faces peering from trunks, sculptures awash in vibrant colours. There’s even a monumental figure standing for humanity sculpted on the African continent.

But very few people know the man whose hands reveal this art from stone, wood, and even thrown-away items. Barbados TODAY’s Maria Bascombe visited artist Christopher Chandler as he works to transform public space, inviting us to see ourselves and our landscape with fresh eyes.

So you may have seen the Parris Hill mural in St Joseph, and the trees with faces in St John. Less well known may be the stunning Reviving Humanity monument at Sharm-El-Sheikh on the southern edge of Egypt. But even obscure is the man behind the art.

You may have passed him on the street or heard his name, but this artist prefers to be known only by his pieces.

Yet, Christopher Chandler is an internatio