Barry Spence

Born St. Helens in Merseyside, England in 1966.Now based in Bury, Lancashire.
My images invite viewers to share boundless pictorial spaces inspired by nature and humanity. The compositions draw emotions and feelings alongside themes of birth/death, creation/destruction, regeneration and constantly changing structures such as fire and the universe. My work is heavily influenced by the effects of light, from a cosmic Big-Bang to the glow of a desert city in the last throes of a scorching sunset. Communicating through suggestive rather than representational pictures with colour as the central force of the creative process and charging my work with symbolic meaning I attempt to give the paintings a physical presence that is both abstract and referential.

Barry has work in collections throughout the UK and Worldwide including work in the Saudi Royal Palace and the Yellowstone Club in Montana USA.

Qualifications and training: 1987 HND in Scientific & Technical Illustration passed with Merit, Blackpool and Fylde Art College, Palatine Road, Blackpool.

Solo exhibitions
2019 Rose & Lee Interiors. Prestwich. Manchester. UK.
2016-2019 Panoramic Interiors, Alderley Edge, Cheshire. UK
2015 Panoramic Interiors, Alderley Edge, Cheshire. UK
2010 Nature & Humanity, Keighley Arts Factory, Keighley, Yorkshire. UK
2009 Solo Exhibition, Mooch Art Gallery, Oldham St. Manchester
2009 UK and Europe Tour of Contemporary Office Spaces, Little Van Gogh, Basingstoke: Valeant Pharmaceuticals
2008 Solo Exhibition, Samlesbury Hall, Preston PR5 0UP
2008 UK & European Tour of Contemporary Offices, Little Van Gogh, UK:London: Grant Thornton, Thomson Scientific, Siemens,
2007 Nature & Humanity, PAD Gallery, 52 Church St. Preston, Lancs.
2006 Combustion, The Hot Art Gallery, 2 minshull street knutsford cheshire WA16 6HG
2006 Solo Exhibition, The Met, Market Street, Bury, Lancs BL9 0BW
2006 Art & Architecture Exhibition, Hot Art Gallery, 2 Minshull St. Knutsford, Cheshire.

Group exhibitions
2015 Galerie D'arte, Ramsbottom. Bury, Lancashire.
2014 Galerie D'arte, Ramsbottom. Bury, Lancashire.
2013 Dunphys Gallery, Burton-upon Trent.
2012 Artgallery, Spencer House, Tetbury, Gloucestershire.
2011 Bury Art Week, Bury Art Gallery, Moss St. Bury, Lancs.
2011 Summer Exhibition, Calder Art Galler...