Barry Russell Lorne

Barry was born into a working-class family and raised in the government tenement housing projects of Northern England in the mill town of Lancaster.
At the age of twelve he immigrated to North America with his family and began an intense four-year apprenticeship program under a Hungarian Master painter and later completed his education with a B.F.A. from the University of Lethbridge.
As well as being an artist Barry has been an editor-in-chief of an arts magazine, educator and more recently a curator of a contemporary art space.
Barry lives and works in Calgary, Alberta Canada where he keeps a full time studio and shows his work in Australia, Canada and the U.S.
His work can be found in private and public collections around the world.
“My statement often changes with any new series of work but what remains consistent is that I consider myself to be an Emblematic painter and Pop Surrealist using symbols, icons and a bright color palette to create a visual language. My work is focused on the process of reductionism both in imagery and application letting the paintings imply a story but never fully resolve the narrative.”

Barry’s work can be found in galleries in Australia, Canada, New Zealand the U.S. and online social media. Instagram
In Australia at the Studio gallery group in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane
In Canada at the Elevation Gallery in Canmore Alberta and Fernie B.C. as well as The Dade Loft in Calgary, Alberta
In the U.S. The Tracy Park Gallery in Malibu California, the James Oliver Gallery in Philadelphia and the Graphite Gallery in New Orleans.