Barbara Strong
 Painter / Abstract


  EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS

Diploma in Counselling, Psychosynthesis and Education Trust Art Teachers Certificate, Goldsmiths College
Diploma in Art and Design (Fine Art), Ravensbourne College


EXHIBITIONS

2000



1998/99









1973/74

Peterborough Art House, Peterborough
Svenska Konstgalleriat, Malmo, Sweden
The Arts Centre, All Hallows School, Farnham
The Gallery, Crockfords & Alligators, Falmouth
Curzon Gallery, Wimbledon Village,London
Grand Marche d'Art Contemporaire, Bruxelles
Courtyard Gallery at The Affordable Art Show, Battersea, London
Grand Marche fur Zeitgenossische Kunst, Hamburg
Plumbline Gallery, St. Ives Lemon Street Gallery, Truro
‘Not the RA' at The Llewellyn Alexander, London Courtyard Gallery, Selbourne, Hampshire
Grantley Gallery, Wonersh, Surrey
Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, Mall Galleries, London
Art d'Anqui, Marciac, Gers, France
London Group at The Camden Arts Centre, London London
Group at The Whitechapel Gallery, London

FORTHCOMING 2001 (Solo shows)
Market Street Mews, Penryn, Cornwall
Galerie Forum, Usingen, Germany

CLIENTS / COLLECTORS

Pearsons Educational, Harlow, Essex
Jones Laing, Cutlers Garden Estate, London
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Jacobs Recording Studios, Dippenhall,
Adult Institute of Art, Beckenham, Kent
St. James Catholic Church, Reading, Berks.
Mr. And Mrs. Hawdon Goodburn, Bruxelles, Belgium
Mr. And Mrs. Strangeway, Gers, France
Lady Mavis Coulson, Hampshire
Mr. Christopher Perry, London
Mr. And Mrs. Chaloner, Cornwall
Investia,
I.S.M.A.Ltd
Pinsent & Curtis
Orchard Solicitors
G.S.K. Morgan Stanley Property Management Ltd.
Nelson Bostock Communications,
Travers,Smith,Braithewaite D.M.H.(U.K.) Ltd.
Net I.Q. Research International Group Ltd
Merck,Sharp & Dohne
Jones Lang La Salle
Granville Baird
Hermes Pensions
R.P.S.Group plc.

Art Consultancy Exclusively represented in the corporate market by International Art Consultants/ Art for Offices, London.

 
Soulscape I 
Acrylic
20" x 26"
£650.00


Soft Awakening l
Gouache
14 " x 18"
£400.00




Soulscape III
Gouache
20" x 26"
£650.00

 


ARTISTS STATEMENT

"My fascination in the visual world is to do with edges, boundaries and border-lines.

There is a coded compositional content to my paintings which relates to this theme on 'edge', drawing from both visual and non-visual source material.

This is certainly subjective and representational, an attempt to clarify the undefinable. For where do edges begin and end?"

After a promising start in in the early seventies, Barbara's artistic career was interrupted for over fifteen years by illness. During the "wilderness years", Barbara used what energy she had to homeAutor emotionally and behaviourally deprived adolescents before going on to study part time and gain a Diploma in Psychosynthesis Counselling.

Her student counselling placement brought her firmly back into the art world - it was at the Royal College of Art. "The essence of psychosynthesis is that each of us has a purpose in life, and has challenges and obstacles to meet in order to fulfil that purpose." (Diana Whitmore, Psychosynthesis Counselling in Action).

Since regaining her health, Barbara has been making up for lost time as she fulfils her artistic purpose. Her output has been prolific - with new work appearing frequently in exhibitions both at home and abroad.

The testament to the appeal of her work lies in the wide range of corporate and individual clients who have already added her work to their collections.

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Soul Place II
Acrylic
22" x 30"
£650.00


Analytical Moment l
Acrylic
26" x 40"
£1000.00



Towards the Boundary II
Acrylic
26" x 40"
£1000.00


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