Hilary Barry

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Artist statement


Painting: Oil on canvas, Printing, Drawing, Landscape painting, Portrait painting

APPEARING AND DISAPPEARING 

In the hot days of summer, I lay on my back in a swimming pool and looked up at a mountain with snow on its peaks. The mists rolled and furled, and the landscape revealed itself in parts and sections.

I repeated the activity every day and I never saw that expanse of scenery in the same way. 

This series of paintings explores those events.

I have spent a great deal of time this year experimenting with paint and developing techniques in order to evoke that experience.  Places change and people disappear:  I attempt to recall things forever gone which will always be a part of me.

Meanwhile, the new life and landscape, the changing view, streams by

Qualifications and training

  • 2006 MA Fine Art, Middlesex University, Cat Hill (more info)
  • 1970 Fine Art, Byam Shaw, London

Solo exhibitions

  • 2010 Sanctuary, Tavistock Clinic, 120 Belsize Lane (more info)
  • 2009 Figures in a World, London Centre for Phychotherapy, Kentish Town. London
  • 2008 Not now, Cloisters., Pump Court, Temple London
  • 2007 What lies beneath, Pitt Studio and Gallery 62 Chestnut Walk,, Worcester WR11PR (more info)

Group exhibitions

  • 2012 Its Green, Cultivate Gallery, Vyner Street London WC2
  • 2011 Annual Open Studio from 2007 -2011, Chocolate Factory, Wood Green London (more info)
  • 2011 People and Portraiture, Oxford House, Bethnal Green, London E2
  • 2010 BRICK, The Gallery in Redchurch Street, Shorditch London E2
  • 2009 CRAC, Marie Lloyd. Hackney Empire, London
  • 2008 The Hague Red Cross Summer Exhibition, The Nuithius Centre The Hague Netherlands, The Hague (more info)
  • 2007 Open Studio, Chocolate Factory, Wood Green (more info)
  • 2007 Open Studio, Studio 207, Chocolate Factory 1 Wood Green N22 6XJ (more info)
  • 2007 New Art Birmingham, Curzon Street Station, Birminham (more info)
  • 2007 Womens Work, Fairfields Arts centre, Basingstoke (more info)
  • 2007 Sea life, Historic Dockyard, Portsmouth

Curated projects

  • 2009 Cork Street Open, 28, Cork Street, London
  • 2008 Curated June Frickleton, DMH, New Fetter Lane. London WC1

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