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Barry  is a UK based Welsh Artist born in Merthyr Tydfil and currently residing and working near the market town of Hay-On-Wye in the Welsh Marches. His work is currently focusing on a collection of contemporary atmospheric Welsh Landscapes employing an alchemy of inks, pigments, solutions, soot, ash, charcoal, found media, tannin, metal powders, beeswax, graphite and anything else that happens to fall in his path . . . 

"I fully admit to ‘ most ‘ of my explorations ending with myself and an embarrassing amount of ruined paper laying in a soggy blackened heap in the corner ! I am forever grasping at shadows , waiting for the faint outline of a hill or bank of trees to emerge from the chaos and disorder of my alchemy of solutions , and all too often loosing it again as it dries and moves past that perfect point I was chasing !“

Hawthorn Gallery

About Hawthorn
 

Hawthorn is a contemporary gallery in the Welsh Marches market town of Hay-on-Wye. It is the personal gallery and permanent exhibition space of UK based Welsh Artist Barry Martin-Andrews. It also offers a changing selection of unique Jewellery, Woodturning, Leatherwork, Pottery, Art and Occasions Cards and Guest Stands from other local Artisans and Makers.

Hawthorn Gallery Hay on Wye
Barry Martin-Andrews Logo Hay on Wye
“ There is a state of raised awareness at night that I find exhilarating . . .  a familiar sight can be re-cast with a whole new set of airs, feelings and emotions that simply do not occur to you in the light of day. I have several times nearly scared myself lifeless at the nocturnal motions and reverberating sounds of what later presented itself as merely a wandering sheep, badger, deer or stag, feral dog, wild boar or hill pony. The dark plays tricks . . .  and the senses, innately and inherently open to the possibility of threat or danger in the darkness . . . in the ‘unseen’ . . . are most alive at night “

Barry Martin-Andrews

 

Contact

Barry Martin-Andrews
Hawthorn
Manchester House

3 Castle Street

Hay-On-Wye

HR3 5DF

Hawthorn Gallery

General Opening Hours
 

Monday to Saturday - 10am till 5pm
 

Appointments available by arrangement

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