Bern Barry

Bern Barry grew up in the farming community of Culgoa in the Mallee region of country Victoria. While working in Canberra he attended a Summer School’s for art at the ANU. His passion for drawing and painting saw him doing many sketch of the Monaro region of New South Wales where he use to travel to as a child visit family in Cooma. It is this love of the countryside that drives his inspiration and fuels his creativity. Previously residing in Trentham and now in Glenlyon in Central Victoria he works from his studio painting everyday and drawing from the beauty that surrounds him in that area.  

 Bern’s  work is mostly in oils & acrylics, however has worked with fabrics with installation work.

His paintings are landscape of an abstract nature inspired by what he see’s and interprets. For this exhibition, ‘Views from Studio 54’ he said ‘It is the colours, movement of the grassland, the terrain and skies in my surroundings that inspire me. Every days brings new opportunity to see the landscape in a new and different lights. Loving the change in seasons, creates new colours and movement that inspires’.