'Counsel from the Moon' exhibition by Paul Barker

The show 'Counsel from the Moon' will be on from the 1st - 14th of March. I'd like to invite you to come and see it, but particularly to the private view which will be on the 1st of March from 7pm - 10pm. There will be cakes and wine, music and paintings, the majority of which have not been shown before.

The show marks 30 years of my painting, though most of the work for sale will be much more recent. I am firmly in the tradition of lyrical abstraction: decorative and optimistic. I am always trying to get a new balance between density & emptiness, pattern & space, with the result being a wide variety of "style".

The titles are meant as a way in. Like the pictures they aim for ambiguity and often involve quotation, they are not clues to some hidden meaning.