Philip Barlow - museum of art

Philip BarlowBorn 1968 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Philip describes his work as a step towards abstraction. It is primarily the exploration of light and the relationship of colour, where he at first captures his images with a camera and then translates them into a painted format. He is interested in the concept of capturing “the moment”, a millisecond in time when everything lines up perfectly. His paintings seek to explore and demonstrate this, rather like a wonderfully composed climax of a symphony, a perfect marriage. His paintings also give us a glimpse in time where form, light and colour come together in all their complexity. Philip has a deep appreciation and love for the power and science of colour. Careful tonal shifts and subtlety characterize his work and the blurred image enabled by the camera lens creates new but familiar understandings of form and the relationship between people and place. He is fascinated with the common notion that everything is random when there can be no question that there is design in everything. His is a philosophy of harmony, where even in the grit and grime of a city there is immense beauty to be discovered. A beauty that lies between the imperceptible and the unknown.

3.30 on 4th - Philip Barlow

19 and dreaming - Philip Barlow

Angel - Philip Barlow

Artery - Philip Barlow

Broadway at 10 - Philip Barlow

Decelerate - Philip Barlow

Dissolve - Philip Barlow

Diving in - Philip Barlow

Dusk on 42nd - Philip Barlow

Electric III - Philip Barlow

Flood II - Philip Barlow

Fusion - Philip Barlow

Galaxy on 7th - Philip Barlow

Glass on 42nd - Philip Barlow

Glide II - Philip Barlow

Glow II - Philip Barlow

Jewels on broadway - Philip Barlow

Jingumae 1 - Philip Barlow

Leaving shibuya - Philip Barlow

Piccadilly - Adewale Ojo Babatunde

Refuge II - Philip Barlow

Relations - Philip Barlow

Return - Philip Barlow

See - Philip Barlow

Slipping by on 34th - Philip Barlow

Soak - Philip Barlow

Space between - Philip Barlow

Summer - Philip Barlow

Waiting on time square - Philip Barlow

West 34th street - Philip Barlow

Widesceen - Philip Barlow

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