Artist: Barry Hodgson
Medium: Ink, pastel and tempera on paper
Dimensions: 19''x 30''

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About This Piece
I made this piece en plein air on a hilltop near Hillsburgh, ON (between Guelph and Orangeville) on a bright green summer’s day. I was presented with a complex patchwork of trees, fields and ridges receding to a distant, hazy horizon. I started with waterproof India ink: finding the bones of the composition with a fine steel dip pen and then strengthening it with a large, long-haired ink brush. The final stages involved finding enough textures and different greens to enhance the perspective and develop the identities of the elements while retaining the freedom of mark-making established with the ink.

Biography
Barry was born in 1954 and grew up in Vineland Station, ON. He studied at the University of Guelph, completing his B.A. in Fine Art in 1978. Barry has lived in Hamilton since 1988. He works in oils on canvas and panels, ink, pastels and watercolour on paper and the occasional sculpture. Landscape subjects dominate, made “en plein air” and in the studio.

Barry has exhibited widely in public and private galleries in Canada and received numerous awards and grants, including a month as Artist-in-Residence at Gros Morne National Park in Newfoundland. In Hamilton, over the years, Barry has exhibited with the Carnegie Gallery, Gallery on the Bay and currently is represented by Earls Court Gallery. Barry is also an instructor at Dundas Valley School of Art.

Barry’s work is in the collections of the Art Gallery of Guelph, the Alberta Art Foundation, the Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador and other public, corporate and private collections in Canada and abroad. Barry is represented by Ingram Gallery in Toronto, Earls Court Gallery in Hamilton and Madrona Gallery in Victoria, BC.