PHILIP BARLOW, billie
Oil on linen, 120 x 80 cm
Philip Barlow describes his work as a step towards abstraction. It is primarily the exploration
of light and the relationship of colour, where he first captures his images with a camera and
then translates them into a painted format. He is interested in the concept of capturing ‘the
moment’, a millisecond in time when everything lines up perfectly.
‘Although I work within a long tradition of landscape painting, my depiction of the ‘seen’
landscape is simply a vehicle through which I navigate territory of another nature. A landscape
less ordinary; where the line between the physical and the spiritual realm has seemingly been
removed. However, these scenarios are not intended to be of a surreal nature. Hopefully they
will seem curiously familiar and convincingly real.’