Sunshine Coast QLD
Bronwyn Barton’s semi abstract artworks are a response to the positive and the negative shapes, the textures, lines, shadows and reflections she sees in the sub tropical bush setting she calls home. Her process is one of act and respond where experimentation is encouraged. She paints in layers and uses different methods to reveal the underlying colour, which provides a sense of both depth and spontaneity. She likes looking through and into, to what lies beyond and these are the sorts of ideas she tries to convey in her work.
Prize Finalist
Artworks: 13
Bronwyn Barton began painting in 2008 and although largely self-taught she has taken classes and workshops with a number of Australian artists. She has exhibited in Group Exhibitions in Sydney and on the Sunshine Coast.
Bronwyn teaches mixed media painting at her home studio and participates in the annual Noosa Open Studio artist trail.
Although her previous work life was finance/number based her artwork is perhaps surprisingly far more organic. Inspired by the natural sub-tropical bush where she lives, her semi abstract artworks are a response to the positive and the negative shapes, the textures, lines, shadows and reflections she sees around her. Bronwyn loves to wander and pick up debris and withered bark to keep as references. Her phone is full of photos of plant forms from around the garden.
Bronwyn is an intuitive painter who loves the luscious properties of paint and the expressive marks she can make not just with a brush but with whatever is at hand. Her process is one of act and respond where experimentation is encouraged. She paints in layers and uses different methods to reveal the underlying colour, which provides a sense of both depth and spontaneity. She likes looking through and into, to what lies beyond and these are the sorts of ideas she tries to convey in her work.
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