Author Archives: Jenny Potts Barr

Studio visit…………………… working title is ‘Sand Bird’.

I had an English literature teacher in Western Australia who wore a yellow feathered cropped jacket and think ‘giantess with jet black bobbed to the side hair’ as you imagine her power walking through the halls of a very conservative all girls school. I channel her spirit here…. goes with Sand Bird

+Tool Box creation+ JOOOne/joooLIE/AUGHust/Cept

JPBarr 2025 These have been my ‘toolbox’ months. I have been deep diving and thinking about my toolbox as a visual artist. Organising my ‘plugs, globs and verious weel nuts’ (photo by JPBarr 2025 Wellstead Museum). Handwriting is a gesture, mark making is a gesture of the hand, same same in my head. JPBarr 2025ContinueContinue reading “+Tool Box creation+ JOOOne/joooLIE/AUGHust/Cept”

Where has 2026 gone?

I have been working away in my new studio, getting a feel for its layout and building up my painting habits-closing the gap between drawing and painting. I’ve been rejected from most applications that I’ve put in for = prizes/residencies/local shows etc, but the words of Samuel Beckett keep me company “…fail harder’. I’ll justContinueContinue reading “Where has 2026 gone?”

‘Paper Works’at Gallery THS, Margaret River.April 2026

Artist Statement for Paper Works, a group show. ‘You can always find a piece of paper and something to draw with wherever you are. I like papers transportability, it’s bare minimal requirements- eyes/hands/implement and I’ve used oil crayons for over 25 years. They are easy to buy, quick, colourful, you can execute a line orContinueContinue reading “‘Paper Works’at Gallery THS, Margaret River.April 2026”