Aleph Contemporary for AccessArt

The last time I used gouache I was travelling through India and Nepal on a Royal Overseas League Travel Bursary over 20 years ago. This is like returning to an old friend and rediscovering the delights of rich and fluid colours such as Bengal Rose and Opera Pink. This work was created in my lockdown shed studio surrounded by the South Downs where I walked and experienced the phenomena and spectacle of the day.

The Baron attempts to make raw and visceral works. Painting for me is a visual experience of what paint can do, in the doing is the knowing. I paint wet into wet employing automatism as the works are made manifest rendered through one gestural decision leading to another. Layers are built up as the works are twisted and turned until images reveal a cliff edge or an imagined space. References can include Medieval Northern European painting, cave paintings of Lascaux and Outsider Art.

Education

2017-2019   Turps Art School  Studio Painting programme

2000-2002   University of Brighton MA Fine Art Painting

1990-1992   Crakow Academy of Fine Art, Poland, Painting

1985-1988   Central St Martins BA hons Exhibitions
2021  Hastings Contemporary : A Generous Space ASP works (Upcoming)
2021  Glyndebourne Opera House : FairGround (Upcoming)
2021  Matthew Burrows Selects, Unit1 Gallery/Workshops London W10                                                                             
2020  Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries (online)                                                                                                                                 
2020  FBA Futures Mall Galleries
2019  Glyndebourn Opera House- ‘Between Worlds’ Artist in Residence

2019  Bloomberg New Contemporaries  Leeds City Gallery/South London Gallery

2019  Turps Painters : Studio Painting Programme Show

2019  Fitzrovia Gallery London : A Raw Garden

2019  Offshoot Gallery London: Prologue

2019  Messums Wiltshire ' Paint: The Seen, the unseen and the Imagined' Contemporary European Painting incl Rosa Loy, Jessie Makinson, Heike Kelter and Rose Wylie

2018  Flowers Gallery 'Turps artist for the day' , Cork St London
2015  Observer Building Hastings Wet and Dry,  with Matthew Burrows, Simon Burton, Gerard Hemsworth, Mario Rossi and Rose Wylie.

Awards
2019   Artist in Residence at Glyndebourne Opera House

2018   Wytham Hall Painting prize

2001   The English Association - Award for Best 4-11 Book - Becoming Me (Frances Lincoln Publishing)

1997   ROSL Travel Bursary - India and Nepal

1990-92  British Council / Polish Government Scholarship - to study painting under Prof. Nowosielski, Cracow

1987  Thames Television Travel Bursary -  Dordogne, France

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