Monolith Painting

Joe Barrow is an emerging figurative artist based in North London whose work explores communication and the limits of language. Within his paintings figures seem unable to speak and must rely on emotions to express their feelings. Joe's pictures are created using a form of automatic painting, they start with random gestural marks which are sketched onto the canvas, and through a process of addition and removal, form into familiar shapes and feelings. Stories and characters develop in an organic dreamlike manner shaping into the final painting. Joe is a graduate of the Art Academy London (Contemporary Portraiture) and he regularly exhibits and sells his work in the capital.