Dave Barnes

Artistic approach involves the practice of transforming modern concept to reveal nostalgic mood, sometimes referred to as “Oldification”.  Recycled elements, faded colours, layered/collaged backgrounds, and sand-papered imagery all play a part in this process, along with the use of bold observational line and memory dissolved Rockwellian imagery.   Often disregarding conventional rectangular canvases for manipulated wooden shapes to help emphasize theme and subject.  Barnes uses art as a translation of experience and observation that derives inspiration from environment and memory.

Dave Barnes lives in BC and his work is shown nationally and internationally.