Ali Barker – Visual Artist

Abstract painter expressing music and sound in colour. Inspired by my music-colour synaesthesia. Find me on Instagram @alibarkerart / #musiccolourpaint / or at alibarker.com / Works for sale via dot-art.co.uk / Based in Merseyside, UK.

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Things were a little different back in July 2019 (no 33 degrees heatwave here today!) The composer Isabel Benito Gutiérrez and myself have recently started developing a new cross-discipline collaborative work – watch this space 🎵🎨🎵 Posted @withregram • @alibarkerart 23 July 2019 Something a bit different today 🎨🎵 The end result of a collaborative painting with Roland Keogh. The video of the process will become the musical score for a performance at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, on 31st October 2019! Thanks to composer Isabel Benito Gutiérrez – that was great fun! https://www.instagram.com/p/CC_PZMJlWlo/?igshid=1xcv0oywovmhl

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New post: What good is abstract painting now? Laurie Fendrich wonders what COVID means for the little sub-sub-sub-species of human primates known as abstrat painters to which she belongs and deeply cares about. “The context in which I’ve always made my art is gone. The art world of galleries and museums, the social artistic life of studio visits, dinners with other artists, openings, lectures and symposia on art, have disappeared or at best are severely diminished. For all those who cheerfully embrace the virtual viewing of abstract paintings on social media and gallery and museum websites, I commend you. But though I do this too, what good is it if I still believe in making and looking at one-of-a-kind works of art that to be fully felt and understood must be seen without digital mediation? Abstract painters have never had much of an audience; COVID has made it so we now have practically no audience at all. Because we don’t tell stories like figurative painters do, and our art isn’t jazzy or high-tech, we’re caught in the lonely middle.” Read more : https://www.twocoatsofpaint.com/2020/07/what-good-is-abstract-painting-now.html

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I was so happy yesterday to visit an actual art gallery in reality, not on a screen! I’ve missed physically seeing artwork on a wall, I share similar concerns about the future as the artist in this blog...

The painting I’m standing next to is ‘Broken Bride, 13.6.82’ painted in 1982 by John Hoyland. In the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.

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‘Three Lions (Synaesthesia 164)’ 🎵🎨⚽️ My expressive painting created in response to colours I perceived whilst listening to this music by Liverpool band The Lightning Seeds. Acrylic on canvas, 60x60cm. This painting is available through the dot-art Liverpool gallery website (link in bio ⬆️) 👉 and the dot-art gallery in Liverpool city centre has now reopened one day per week (Fridays 10-6) for orders and collections, and for artwork viewings by appointment – good news 😀 . . . #musiccolourpaint https://www.instagram.com/p/CB533QkFv6q/?igshid=1n5x3bigzsamy