Author Archives: Jenny Potts Barr

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 justContinue 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 orContinue reading “‘Paper Works’at Gallery THS, Margaret River.April 2026”

Digital Drawings of Sea Weed and Sea grasses from Cowaramup Bay, WA.

A sample of my Vector drawings from 2024. Tools – Leica Dlux7/Adobe Fresco/Apple Pencil/ Illustrator and initial seawrack studies in pencil on paper.

Revisiting oil paint.

In 2024 I spent 8 months in the Stables studio space at The Farm in Margaret River. My sole aim was to begin painting again after a hiatus of almost a decade. I chose quick tactile accessible materials and worked from my collection of sea wrack studies and photographs that I have been collating sinceContinue reading “Revisiting oil paint.”