\n Stephen Bithell has his creative works on display in Kunsthaus Michel gallery in the southern German city of W\u00fcrzburg until November 14.\n<\/p>\n
\n Work by Stephen Bithell(Image: Stephen Bithell)\n<\/p>\n
\n The collection features an array of bridges in small format oil paintings, watercolours and drawings.\n<\/p>\n
\n However, these bridges aren\u2019t all that meets the eye as there is a much deeper meaning explained Mr Bithell.\n<\/p>\n
\n Work by Stephen Bithell(Image: Stephen Bithell)\n<\/p>\n
\n He said: \u201cI love bridges, when you look closer, they are like a handshake between two people.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Germans say hello and goodbye with kisses and I realised that this is like us with hand shakes, it is a bridge between two people.”\n<\/p>\n
\n He explained that there is a bridge in Germany ‘which has been a meeting place where people meet up for a glass of wine on a warm summers evening.’\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr Bithell added that this would be ‘a great use for Westham Bridge in Weymouth as it is closed to traffic [except parking].’\n<\/p>\n
\n He sees a connection between the Town Bridge over Weymouth Harbour and the Old Bridge in W\u00fcrzburg.\n<\/p>\n
\n He also describes himself as a ‘bridge builder’ as during the pandemic, Mr Bithell sent people his works free of charge \u2018to comfort them in their loneliness of the lockdown.\u2019\n<\/p>\n
\n During this period he sent out between 600 and 700 postcards.\n<\/p>\n
\n The father-of-two, who attended the former Bournemouth and Poole College of Art before becoming a hairdresser, has been painting and drawing all his life from as early as he can remember.\n<\/p>\n
\n He said: “I knew that I wanted to be an artist by the age of around eight,”\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr Bithell has worked as a hairdresser in Weymouth since the 1990s – including at the former Blondz salon, and Pure in St Mary Street.\n<\/p>\n
\n Stephen Bithell painting(Image: Stephen Bithell)\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr Bithell will be attending the gallery on Tuesday, October 28 at 7pm to meet the audience and shake their hands \u2018in order to build a bridge\u2019 between Weymouth and W\u00fcrzburg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephen Bithell has his creative works on display in Kunsthaus Michel gallery in the southern German city of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-212313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}