Rainy Brindley Place by Robert Barlow

Rain On Brindley Place is a rainy urban canal side scene of Birmingham’s inner city canal development, known as Brindley Place, located near another canal section known as Canal Street Basin.

Size: H:60cm cm x W:91cm cm

Robert Barlow, who has a photographic eye for the urban landscape, travels the length and breadth of the country to photograph his subjects, through the media of digital photography, capturing the ever changing skylines through out recent modern times, which he translates into oil paintings of rich, colouful and virile compositions. Born in 1973, the Tamworth based artist attained a B.A Hons art and design degree at Bradford College in 1996, where he specialised in painting, and later obtained a Master of Arts degree in Print Making, in 1998. His works are typically colourful and vibrant, with rustic colours and textures set against turquoises and blues, and begin their process with pale graduated background washes, overlaid with pastel toned block colours, applied by large household brushes. Details are overlaid and textured with palette knives, and various other tools including rollers and smaller brushes. His work depicts scenes of old and new, of changing and regenerating urban skylines and water fronts, new structures erected by cranes and old industrial landscapes, slowly dissapearing , phase by phase. Scenes amongst the concrete jungle, beneath concrete flyovers, streets that have seen better days and inner cities metamophosing into the glass and steel icons of today. To discuss works by Robert Barlow please contact deborah@wychwoodart.com, or call 07799 535765.