About Bob Barron

I am interested in the concept of time and time passing and my work tends towards a minimalist, contemplative style, in a relatively muted palette.  Currently I am making large works using oil paint on canvas. I also work in mixed media, recycling materials that I have picked up, notably card packaging and old roof slates. 

The card comes from local outlets.  I then cut, tear and paint the various pieces and often score and sand the surfaces to reveal the corrugations beneath.

The old, broken roof slates have been eroded and marked by exposure to the elements and man-made pollutants.  I wash them clean from years of soot and grime and often scratch into the surface with a sharp point.

 A work may remain abstract or sometimes I may collage a printed image such as a Graeco-Roman statue or a photograph.  I am interested in astronomy and may depict suns, moons and constellations or lines and simple geometric shapes.   I am also interested in leaving traces of human kind such as a hand or a foot print or, occasionally, a common or garden domestic object.

My work has been shown widely throughout the country in solo and mixed exhibitions and is in gallery, hospital and corporate collections and also with private patrons at home and abroad.  Artists I like include Tapies, Diebenkorn, Cornell, Nicholson, Pasmore, Paul Feiler and Prunella Clough.

For any further information about my work, please do not hesitate to contact me.