Keith Barrell NDD. ATC.(LON.) - Classical roots with a modern touch

Over the past 6 months I have been able to devote my time more exclusively to working in new directions that involve imaginative reviews of landscape, natural and elemental and organic sources that surround us.

I have looked more closely at ways of depicting surface and form in a semi-abstract manner. That has expanded my understanding and use of a broader range of media, in a more expressive and gestural way.

This has led me to bring together both 2 and 3 dimensional processes within a single composition.

= Sold - Private Collection

Top	Golden Moon Acrylic Media - Heavily textured surface abscract pattern of the moon. Decorated with Acrylics and Gold Leaf.	Sand Pools Acrylic Mixed Media - Built from stretched layers of muslin on boxed canvas. Painted with Gesso, Acrylics and decorated with pebbles.	Rollercoaster Acrylic Mixed Media - Built from stretched layers of muslin on boxed canvas. Painted with Gesso and Acrylics.
	32" x 24" (80cm x 60cm approx.)	40" x 40" (100cm x 100cm approx.)	32" x 24" (80cm x 60cm approx.)
Top	Golden Sunset Acrylic Media - Heavily textured surface abscract pattern of the sun. Decorated with Acrylics.	Hot Tubs Acrylic Mixed Media - Built from stretched layers of muslin on canvas. Painted with Gesso, Acrylics and decorated with small gravel pebbles.	Decorative Spands Acrylic Mixed Media - Built from stretched layers of muslin on canvas. Painted with Gesso and Acrylics.
	32" x 24" (80cm x 60cm approx.)	40" x 20" (100cm x 50cm approx.)	20" x 28" (50cm x 70cm approx.)
Top	Kite I Acrylic Mixed Media - Built from stretched layers of muslin on canvas. Painted with Gesso, Acrylics and decorated with Gold Leaf.	Kite II Acrylic Mixed Media - Built from stretched layers of muslin on canvas. Painted with Gesso, Acrylics and decorated with Gold Leaf.	Spands of Bridges and Time Acrylic Mixed Media - Built from stretched layers of muslin on boxed canvas. Painted with Gesso and Acrylics.
	24" x 32 " (60cm x 80cm approx.)	24" x 32 " (60cm x 80cm approx.)	40" x 20 " (100cm x 50cm approx.)
Top	Gold Bricks Acrylic Media - Heavily textured surface pattern taken from building elements. Decorated with Acrylics and Gold Leaf.	Abstract Rainbow Acrylic Media - An abstracted review of weather systems with refracted light. Gesso and Acrylics.	Aggregate Acrylic Media - Card decoupage on canvas treated with heavily textured Gesso ground and Acrylic pigments.
	24" x 32 " (60cm x 80cm approx.)	20" x 16" (50cm x 40cm approx.)	24" x 32" (60cm x 80cm approx.)
Top	Approaching Clouds Acrylic Media - A combination of materials that include 2 and 3 dimensional processes and low-relief forms.	Peaks & Troughs Acrylic Media - An abstracted review of a storm at sea with rising waves. Gesso and Acrylics.	Approaching Storm & Rainbow Acrylic Media - On canvas treated with heavily textured Gesso ground and Acrylic pigments.
	20" x 16" (50cm x 40cm approx.)	16" x 20 " (40cm x 50cm approx.)	32" x 24" (80cm x 60cm approx.) Framed
Top	Aurora of Passing Planets Acrylics on low-relief layers of Gesso ground.	Cell Cool Low relief card (sphere) surface with layered Gesso ground and Acrylic pigments on a boxed canvas.	Cell Warm Low relief card (sphere) surface with layered Gesso ground and Acrylic pigments on a boxed canvas.
	24" x 28" (60cm x 70cm approx.)	20" x 20" (50cm x 50cm approx.)	20" x 20" (50cm x 50cm approx.)
Top	Inter-twining Wires Acrylic Media - An abstracted review of entangeled wire. Painted in Acrylics on a layered, textured, Gesso ground.	Decaying Casa I Acrylic Media - Decaying Spanish wall painted in Acrylics, using collaged Watercolour paper on stretched canvas.	Decaying Casa II Acrylic Media - Decaying Spanish wall painted in Acrylics on canvas with a Gesso ground.
	24" x 30" (61cm x 76cm approx.)	30" x 24" (76cm x 60cm approx.)	16" x 20" (40cm x 50cm approx.) Framed
Top	Sun up at Rising Sea Acrylic Media - An abstracted review of a storm at sea. Gesso and Acrylics.	Essence Of Flight Acrylic Media - An expression of the moment of flight to the point of decay. Gesso and Acrylics.	Fallen Seed Heads - One Forms that are derived from fallen Poppy heads, treated in a semi-abstract manner. Stretched muslin on a boxed frame so that the design follows along the edges. Painted with Gesso and Arcylic piped circular forms.
	14" x 10" (36cm x 26cm approx.)	32" x 40 " (80cm x 100cm approx.)	20" x 20" (50cm x 50cm approx.)
Top	Fallen Seed Heads - Two Forms that are derived from fallen Poppy heads, treated in a semi-abstract manner. Stretched muslin on a boxed frame so that the design follows along the edges. Painted with Gesso and Arcylic piped circular forms.	Harvest Moon Acrylic Media - A combination of materials that include 2 and 3 dimensional processes and low-relief forms.	Heart Muscles Acrylics on low-relief layers of Gesso ground.
	20" x 20" (50cm x 50cm approx.)	30" x 24" (76cm x 61cm approx.)	20" x 20" (50cm x 50cm approx.)
Top	Honeycombe Acrylic Media - An abstracted review of a Honeycombe structure. Painted in Acrylics on a layered, textural, Gesso ground.	Inner Core Acrylic Media - An abstracted review of the sun. Acrylics on a layered Gesso ground.	Thawing Winter Landscape Built from stretched layers of muslin on boxed canvas. Painted with Gesso, Acrylics and silver foils.
	32" x 40" (80cm x 100cm approx.)	24" x 32" (60cm x 80cm approx.)	40" x 20 " (100cm x 50cm approx.)
Top	Miraged Landscape Acrylic Media - An abstracted review of a stylised landscape. Acrylics on a layered Gesso ground with PVA textures	Mooring Post with barnacle & seaweed Acrylic, Multi-Media and Gesso ground.	Patina & Decay I Acrylic Media - A combination of media that include 2 and 3 dimensional surfaces and low-relief forms.
	40" x 40" (100cm x 100cm approx.)	24" x 32" (60cm x 80cm approx.)	20" x 16 " (50cm x 40cm approx.)
Top	Platelets Acrylic Media - Rectangular and Circular low-relief forms encircled with abstract form field. Worked in Watercolour paper, painted with Acrylics on a layered Gesso ground with PVA textures and silver foils.	The Big One Acrylic Media - On canvas treated with heavily textured Gesso and Acrylic pigments on low-relief ground created by creasing handmade watercolour paper.	Ringed Planet Acrylic Media - Concentric rings painted with Acrylics on a layered Gesso ground with gold leaf core.
	20" x 28" (50cm x 70cm approx.) Framed	32" x 24" (80cm x 60cm approx.)	24" x 32" (60cm x 80cm approx.) Framed
Top	Rusting Winch Acrylic Media - On canvas treated with heavily textured Gesso ground and Acrylic pigments.	Pebble Stream Built from stretched layers of muslin on boxed canvas. Painted with Gesso, Acrylics and decorated with pebbles.	Shoal of Fish Acrylic Media - An abstracted review of a storm at sea with rising shoal of fish. Gesso and Acrylics.
	24" x 32" (60cm x 80cm approx.)	24" x 32" (60cm x 80cm approx.)	30" x 24" (76cm x 61cm approx.)
Top	Spinning Comet Acrylic Media - An abstracted review of a comet. Acrylics on a layered Gesso ground, decorated with Gold Leaf.	Squatting Figure Acrylic Media - A low-relief plaster sculpture worked directly from the male model, using plaster impregnated bandage and Acrylic pigment.	Stack of Rocks Acrylic Media. Low-relief acrylics on a layered Gesso ground.
	32" x 24" (80cm x 60cm approx.)	20" x 16" (50cm x 40cm approx.)	28" x 24" (70cm x 60cm approx.)
Top	Stone Quarry Acrylic Media - On canvas treated with heavily textured Gesso, plaster and Acrylic pigments.	Tidal Ebb & Flow Mixed Media - On boxed canvas, painted with Gesso, Acrylics and decorated with pebbles.	Twin Lakes Acrylic Media - On boxed canvas treated with heavily textured Gesso ground and Acrylic pigments.
	40" x 33" (100cm x 83cm approx.)	40" x 40" (100cm x 100cm approx.)	32" x 24" (80cm x 60cm approx.)
Top	Dendritic Cell (found in the outer skin and protects against infection) Acrylics on low-relief layers of Gesso.	Vortices Abstract image of passing planets. Acrylics on heavy Gesso ground	Water Snakes Stretched layers of muslin ground on boxed canvas. Painted with Gesso, Acrylics and decorated with plastics in the form of snakes.
	32" x 24" (80cm x 60cm approx.)	23" x 31" (60cm x 80cm approx.)	40" x 20 " (100cm x 50cm approx.)
Top	Weather System Acrylic Media - An abstracted review of weather systems with refracted light. Gesso and Acrylics.	Melting Snows Acrylic Media - On canvas treated with heavily textured Gesso ground and Acrylic pigments.	Stone Walled Winter Landscape Built from stretched layers of muslin on boxed canvas. Painted with Gesso and Acrylics.
	20" x 16" (50cm x 40cm approx.)	32" x 24" (80cm x 60cm approx.)	23" x 32" (60cm x 80cm approx.)
Top	Yellow & Beige Built from stretched layers of muslin on boxed canvas. Painted with Gesso and Acrylics.	Quilted Landscape Acrylic Media - On canvas treated with heavily textured Gesso and Acrylic pigments on low-relief ground created by creasing handmade watercolour paper.	Whirling Tides Built from stretched layers of muslin on a canvas background. Painted with Gesso and Acrylics.
	23" x 23 " (60cm x 60cm approx.)	32" x 24" (80cm x 60cm approx.)	23" x 32" (60cm x 80cm approx.)
Top	Dolly Mixtures Built from stretched layers of muslin on a boxed canvas. Painted with Gesso and Acrylics.
	40" x 20 " (100cm x 50cm approx.)