Jim Barry - Dublin and Portugal

Irish artist Jim Barry, Dublin and Portugal

Having spent the greater part of my life (about 35 years) as a professional in the music industry I have found a more intimate media to express myself.

I've always dabbled in design and creating visual images but never applied myself seriously until the turn of the Millennium. Since then my passion to recreate what strikes me as beautiful has taken hold and I try to capture it through the medium of paint, on various surfaces. I don't know what category my work fits into. My style I'd describe as Obsessive Compulsive Order driven by my own OCD... the need to to have everything in a specific place...no blurred lines, no feathering, all the elements accurately and sharply defined. The subjects can be anything from Nature, Fantasy or People once they meet my standard of aestheticism....but I'm a sucker for a good skyscape.