GORDON BARKER (born 1960)
“Village Fete”
Acrylic on Canvas.
18 ˝” x 18 ˝”. Signed IMAGE
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Gordon Barker was born in Gibraltar in 1960. His father was in the army so the family
moved around the world until they finally settled in Northamptonshire when
Gordon was 12. From a very young age
Gordon found art fascinating. However,
it wasn’t until he was a secondary school that he was given the encouragement
from his art teacher to paint and draw in many diffeent ways and to let his own
style grow and develop. On leaving
school he continued to paint in oil but was always experimenting with different
materials. In 1981 he began to paint
landscapes for the first time. Initially
these were mostly sunsets and silhouettes but in time he began to paint
pictures with more colour and many different subjects. In late 1983 he sold his first painting to a
recording company in Milton Keynes which gave him the confidence to promote his work to a wider
market. Over the next few years he sold
several hundred originals to various companies including MTV Europe, The Gap
and to many private collectors many of which were commissions. His landscapes are mostly created in his
imagination and likes to make his pictures “busy” so that there is always
something else to notice going on. He is
passionate about his paintings and never loses the desire to create another
work of art.
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