Hilary Barry

Hilary Barry

Photograph of British artist Hilary Barry's painting in oil on canvas, titled "Standing on Crags and Hollows". Size 40 x 40 cm.
Standing on Crags and Hollows

Hilary lived in Brynmawr at the Head of the Valleys in Wales for 17 years. On a Sunday morning she walked over the mountains, across fields and down valleys with her father and brother. The memories, associations and traces of the history of a place – geological or man-made – remain with her.

Photograph of British artist Hilary Barry's painting in oil on canvas, titled "Speak of What We Owe". Size 76 x 76 cm.
Speak of What We Owe

The rugged Welsh landscape she remembers from her childhood has been destroyed, renovated and transformed throughout her lifetime: it leaves her wishing to uncover, delve and reveal her thoughts and memories through painting.

Photograph of British artist Hilary Barry's painting in oil on canvas, titled "Grazing Ground". Size 40 x 30 cm.
Grazing Ground

In those mountains, ancient rocks, beeches and oaks, the gushing waterfalls and dramatic weather and rushing tides, there is something about lineage and layers: a true source material which speaks of elemental cycles of birth, growth, deterioration and death.

Photograph of British artist Hilary Barry's painting in oil on canvas, titled "Tracing the Surface". Size 76 x 76 cm.
Tracing the Surface

In her painting she seeks to evoke these memories, looking for poetic rhythms and echoes to make resonant statements.

Photograph of British artist Hilary Barry's painting in oil on canvas, titled "Out of the Woods". Size 50 x 40 cm.
Out of the Woods

Certain elements are always important and evident in her work: emotive spirit, a sense of passing time and of memory connecting with our deepest thoughts. She is naturally concerned with composition, decomposition, colour and form.

Photograph of British artist Hilary Barry's painting in oil on canvas, titled "Speak of What We Owe". Size 76 x 76 cm.
Speak of What We Owe (76 x 76 cm)

She likes there to be a rhythm and depth in the painting style which draws your eyes across the surface and excites the mind, translating the energy of the subject through the physicality of mark making, gestures and colour. She aims to retain a freshness that creates openness and provokes questions.

Photograph of British artist Hilary Barry's painting in oil on canvas, titled "It Reminded Me". Size 81 x 56 cm.
It Reminded Me

In 2016 she moved from London to Kessingland, so her most recent paintings are the result of observing the changes in the seasons, weather, light and erosion on the local beaches and landscape of the Suffolk shore.

Photograph of British artist Hilary Barry's painting in oil on canvas, titled "In Simple Splendour". Size 122 x 91 cm.
In Simple Splendour

The pull of the wide open space to the horizon excites her imagination: just as you think you’ve captured it, it’s gone… and just the memory remains.

Photograph of British artist Hilary Barry's painting in oil on canvas, titled "What's Left". Size 60 x 73 cm.
What’s Left
Photograph of British artist Hilary Barry's painting in oil on canvas, titled "Here for the Spirit". Size 41 x 31 cm.
Here for the Spirit
Photograph of British artist Hilary Barry's painting in oil on canvas, titled "Not Sweet To Be Undone". Size 73 x 60 cm.
Not Sweet To Be Under
Photograph of British artist Hilary Barry's painting in oil on canvas, titled "About to Remember". Size 73 x 60 cm.
About To Remember

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