Sculptor who contributed to Thompson’s Marylebone’s The Sculpture Show, 2003, with works in plaster for bronze and aluminium. Carter was an industrial designer when he began to draw and paint, continuing during two years’ National Service when he painted from life in Leicester and Portsmouth. During the 1960s he became creative director of a design company while privately pursuing his painting and experimental sculpture, showing with RBA. Travelled extensively in the Americas, Australia and Europe through the 1970s and 1980s and during frequent visits to Lanzarote began working on a series of metal sculptures called The Edge, inspired by the local landscape and the sea. After becoming a full-time painter and sculptor in 1995 Carter began a year’s study in 1998 at The Frink School of Sculpture, becoming a fellow and trustee of it in 1999.
Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)