CONTRASTS, the new exhibition at the Blake Head bookshop, restaurant and gallery in Micklegate, York, reveals the artistic differences of husband-and-wife partnership Peter Barber and Ray.
Peter has exhibited elsewhere in Yorkshire but this is his first York show. Depicting scenes in Honfleur in Normandy, Italy and Britain, he works mainly in watercolour or pen and ink with a watercolour wash, and while his style is traditional it carries a depth of colour that is less common.
His wife, the artist known as Ray, and more formally as Sarah, is exhibiting for the first time. "My work is about colour, its use and vibrancy. Some works are figurative and some pure expressionist," she says. "The use of colour and form, but with no definition to the face or features, leaves viewers free to use imagination to put into a scene whatever they feel is depicted there."
Ray says her expressionist works are in the main painted with joy in mind: "Looking at these paintings should convey to the viewer happiness and a sense of animation."
Contrasts runs until February 1 and all works are for sale.
Updated: 10:16 Friday, January 24, 2003
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