Contemporary Artwork
by Barry Willison

Contemporary Work in Acrylics

WITHOUT LIMITS

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Barry Julian Willison, an emerging contemporary artist working in acrylics based in East Sussex.

The work on this site represents the collection being exhibited for 2009. CLICK TO SEE A VIDEO PRESENTATION OF THE WORK

WITHOUT LIMITS WILL BE EXHIBITING AT BRIGHTON MEDIA CENTRE, MIDDLE STREET, BRIGHTON,
FROM 20 MAY TO 2 JUNE 9am - 5pm FREE ENTRY

Sponsor: WyndMusic

2009 COLLECTION

The current series of paintings is entitled: Without Limits.

On the continuum of existence the Inner world is as the Outer World of the Cosmos: ergo, without limits.

The work roughly divides into the four Western elements: Fire Air Earth Water.

These elements are present in all mystical systems both current and traditional and embody energetically in the human form in spirit, mind and intent.

THE WORK

This contemporary art work is channelled and therefore spontaneous.

The artist is a psychic, a remote viewer, a practitioner of all things connected with High Magick and the works are an expression of half a lifetime's journeying through the realms of Spirit.

Barry works from a space of waking trance meditation, the disclipine of reducing active consciousness thus allowing the work to flow organically. This results in work representing material entirely from the unconscious world.

This is the material expression of a private unique world of the artist.

Yet C G Jung said: 'When I share my dream with you it becomes your dream.'

Thus, myriad evocations and responses are invited from the onlooker.

TECHNIQUE

Exclusively using acrylics, the work consists of heavily layered, textured combinations. The keynotes are strident colours and themed shapes consisting of the channel's signature freehand figures made up of apparently disconnected bold strokes. The paintings are made in two or three day phases, each layer created in the space between meditation and full consciousness.

Barry uses mostly undiluted acrylics. The fast drying properties of acrylics mean each piece is a continuous project needing to be completed while the channel is open.

The artist does not align to any recognised school due to the nature of the works' origins, but the channel is principally abstract in direction and is reminiscent of various naive and ethnic schools. There is no attempt to temper the outcome: the artist's hand is not concerned with established notions of 'art', merely the delivery of the channel's intent.


NICHE

Barry is not technically trained nor in any way an art academic, but when he began to look at art history after producing his first body of work he realised that his own principal alignment might be with the school led by Vassily Kandinsky.

Kandinsky's spiritual, organic approach and use of colour is well documented. As a visual arts ingenue, Barry has found a school to which he theoretically attaches.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

BARRY JULIAN WILLISON is an emerging artist working from the City of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England.

Barry started his creative career as a rock singer whose stage name was Kevin Kirk in the 1960s. He spent several years touring Germany at the same time as The Beatles and in the UK with Manfred Mann, Joe Brown, The Crystals, Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, Mike Preston and Heinz.

He was signed by Mark Wynter's Management and Columbia Records and charted twice in the Top Forty.

In the early 1980s he returned to music with a Dance Chart hit, When you Wake Up Tomorrow.

In 2000 he wrote, recorded and performed an ep under the name Akasha.

Barry has also modelled, sculpted as well as painted and is an award winning amateur photographer.

In 2006 his first work of fiction, an action adventure thriller: The Andean Initiative was published.

Photograph: The Transmogrification Of Those Who Seek To Conquer (AIR) 102cmX 76cm

Price per painting: £4,500