Barry Pearson has taken photographic slides for most of his adult life and is driven by the pleasure gained by being in the landscape he is photographing. He paints using standard watercolour methods however the results are especially bright because he does not use conventional water colour paint or paper.

Procion dye, a very fine powder of very intense strength and transparency, is painted onto inexpensive smooth paper. Two layers of paper are double stretched simultaneously and when the painting is ready for mounting these have to be carefully released from the drawing board. This process builds in to the work a slight tension that resists expansion in all but the most extreme changes of moisture and temperature.

Barry has travelled as a Remote Operated Vehicle Pilot to some quite exotic locations. He takes photographs during these journeys and develops them into paintings when he returns to his studio at "The Container", Kinlochbervie, Sutherland.

Please click on the watercolour links to see examples of his landscapes and subsea paintings.