Ken Barnard

Showing at:
74 Monument Street
PE1 4AG
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Weekend 1 11am-4pm
Weekend 2 11am-4pm
Weekend 3 11am-4pm

The impulsion to make visual comment on an emotional response has continued throughout the course of my artistic career.
My recent series of paintings are based on my responses to specific composers’ music. I listen to music as I paint, mostly jazz and early 20th Century classical, and this has a reflection on the colours and mood in which the work evolves. I paint in gouache, applying collage to create abstract images depicting the music of Vivaldi, Wagner, Prokoviev, Stravinsky and Gershwin, to name but a few. They are a development from my previous paintings of musical instruments in a surrealist context.
I still continue to study life drawing in pencil, pastel and clay; I feel this is an extremely important part of maintaining ‘observation’, crucial for any artist. I studied the human form at the Camberwell School of Art for a time after the war. The figure is also a fundamental part of my puppet making. Puppet making has been my family’s profession dating back to the mid 1800’s. I have continued this tradition and produce puppets for commissions.