Barry is a UK based Welsh Artist born in Merthyr Tydfil and currently residing near the market town of Hay-On-Wye in the Welsh Marches. He studied HND Photography and BA Illustration at Hereford College of Art desiring to learn about different aspects of image making in order to incorporate these disciplines back into his lifelong passion for painting. His work is currently focusing on a collection of contemporary atmospheric Welsh Landscapes employing an alchemy of inks, pigments, solutions, soot, ash, charcoal, tannin, metal powders, graphite and anything else that happens to fall in his path.
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“My work is about mood, atmosphere, suggestion, texture and light. I have limited interest in accurate pictorial representation. My heart lies with that fleeting first sense of a place observed f...