Barry E J Smith art

Paintings, drawings etc.

Category: art

  • I have always enjoyed the hard boiled noir stories that came after the World War 2. I decided to play out my own version of a narrative. I did mine in cardboard.

    The story takes shape.

    Here is my hard boiled tale. A woman gazes into a mirror and wonders what went wrong. We make our own assumptions about what happens next.

    Meanwhile this piece in cut and painted cardboard went on show in the Sussex Contemporary, 2024.

  • My visit to Australia began in my studio in Brighton, UK: the old man, wearing his ‘European’ hat , visits the landscape. His trainers are from Aldi.

    A further image of Australian imagery in painted cardboard’

  • Flowers are a gift for artists. Here are a few of mine.

    Flowers

    Flowers in a variety of media and mostly acrylic on paper

  • An abstract view

    Images of Australian life in acrylic on paper