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”

‘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”

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. Seaposie_02_vectordrawing_JPBarr2024 Sea Wrack Pile with insects. Detail_motionstudioinfuscia_jpbarr2024