Details

First Name

Barry

Last Name

MITCHELL

Username

barry-mitchell

How did you hear about us

SSA Exhibition

Website

http://www.barrymitchellart.com

Region

Dumfries & Galloway

Disciplines

Drawing, Painting, Sculpture

Themes

Architecture, Figurative, Landscape, Portraits

Statement

Statement

Like everybody, I started drawing and painting as a young child (I think I was an abstract expressionist at the age of four), most people stop, some like me, continue.

My work is Realist and if you look closely you will see that it isn’t Hyperrealist, I want it to reflect my personality in my brushstrokes.

I am interested in detail and all the surprising colour combinations that I can find. I tend to prefer sunny days for the strong contrast of light & shade that it gives but I still love the Scottish climate with its moody brooding clouds shrouding the mountains and the subtle colour combinations that it gives.

On viewing, I hope that people enjoy and are exited by what they see. I take fun very seriously.

Biography

Biography

Born 1953, Glasgow.

1975 – Diploma in sculpture from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art (Dundee).

1977 – Left our small island for adventures on the continental land-mass.

1980 – Worked in Paris as an illustrator for Biba, Marie-Claire, Cosmopolitan & Vogue magazines.

1981/84- Four consecutive one man shows with Galerie Philippe Frégnac (Paris).

– also exhibited at Galerie Totem (Brussels),

Art Nou Mil·lenni (Barcelona) & Compass Gallery (Glasgow).

2017- 23 – Lecturer of Perspective & life drawing at LISAA School of Applied Arts (Paris)

Now happily working from studio at 

20 Queen Street, Stranraer    🙂

https://www.barrymitchellart.com/