Barry Cawston Art

Peace and quiet behind shuttered windows in Barcelona – High-rise communal living was once seen as a great step forward for mankind. Cawston’s Tenement series captures the individua...

The abstraction of modern living in 65 flats in Rio de Janeiro – High-rise communal living was once seen as a great step forward for mankind. Cawston’s Tenement series captures the ...

Dynamic shapes and colours seem almost otherwordly. Yangon, Burma – High-rise communal living was once seen as a great step forward for mankind. Cawston’s Tenement series captures ...

The emptiness of a multi-storey car park late at night in Bristol – Cawston’s Concrete Jungle is not a vision of the ultramodern, of orderly skyscrapers with comfortable interiors. ...

Along the road to the promised land of California…. an abandoned shack on the dry side of the mountains – Cawston’s eye for colour, structure and the beauty of the mundane finds a wo...

Along the road to the promised land of California…. an abandoned shack on the dry side of the mountains – Cawston’s eye for colour, structure and the beauty of the mundane finds a wo...

Roadsweeper on the streets of Yangon – Cawston won the BJP Nikon Endframe Award in 2009. His prize was funding for a dream project and he chose to travel the length of the Yangtze ri...

A new world of bright lights and dramatic lines… but will the children of the street ever find their place. – Cawston won the BJP Nikon Endframe Award in 2009. His prize was funding ...

The emptiness of a multi-storey car park late at night in Bristol – Cawston’s Concrete Jungle is not a vision of the ultramodern, of orderly skyscrapers with comfortable interiors. ...

Giant silos seem to twist to the heavens. Salvador Brazil – Cawston’s Concrete Jungle is not a vision of the ultramodern, of orderly skyscrapers with c...

Nga Phe Chaung Monastery emerging from the mists of Lake Inle – Cawston won the BJP Nikon Endframe Award in 2009. His prize was funding for a dream project and he chose to travel the...

A moment of reflection as a cat and resident seem to make eye contact between the floors. – High-rise communal living was once seen as a great step forward for mankind. Cawston’s Te...

Structure and abstraction – High-rise communal living was once seen as a great step forward for mankind. Cawston’s Tenement series captures the individual within the collective. By...

High rise in Singapore – High-rise communal living was once seen as a great step forward for mankind. Cawston’s Tenement series captures the individual within the collective. By fo...

Strips of colour from a rusting building in the Hudson Valley, New York. – Cawston’s search for these lost spaces of distressed beauty have taken him from B...

28 Flats - High rise in Burma – High-rise communal living was once seen as a great step forward for mankind. Cawston’s Tenement series captures the individual within the collective...

Peace and quiet behind shuttered windows in Barcelona – High-rise communal living was once seen as a great step forward for mankind. Cawston’s Tenement series captures the individua...

An exuberance of colour in Brazil – The Spaces in Between series developed out of visits to Naples in Italy and Havana in Cuba, two cities whose past glo...

The bright colours of a cafe in a poor district of Salvador in Brazil. – The Spaces in Between series developed out of visits to Naples in Italy and Havana in Cuba, two cities whose ...

After the fish market closed surfaces have been washed in a morning ritual and the floor has taken on the quality of a mirror. – Cawston won the BJP Nikon Endframe Award in 2009. His...

After the fish market closed surfaces have been washed in a morning ritual and the floor has taken on the quality of a mirror. – Cawston won the BJP Nikon Endframe Award in 2009. His...

Day breaks and the morning ritual of making bread begins – Cawston won the BJP Nikon Endframe Award in 2009. His prize was funding for a dream project and he chose to travel the leng...

Ferry passenger taking the air in his thermal underwear on the deck of a ferry heading up the Yangste River – Cawston won the BJP Nikon Endframe Award in 2009. His prize was funding ...

Cawston won the BJP Nikon Endframe Award in 2009. His prize was funding for a dream project and he chose to travel the length of the Yangtze river from the Tibetan plateau to the bus...

About to take flight… an abandoned service station office on a highway in the American West – Cawston’s eye for colour, structure and the beauty of the mundane finds a world-in-wait...

The washing lines and bright colours of a backstreet in New Delhi – Cawston won the BJP Nikon Endframe Award in 2009. His prize was funding for a dream project and he chose to travel...

A landscape from the Somerset Levels. – Cawston’s landscapes are filled with delicate harmonious tones. They resonate feeling and leave the viewer rapt, lost in the detail as if listening to the echoes of a half-remembered symphony. Poetical visions of paths and glades, ancient woods reflected in flood waters, nature revealed...

An abandoned cinema in Caibarien, Cuba. This pre-Revolutionary edifice was built when Cuba was a playground for tourists and mobsters alike, and America was still revered as somewhe...

Sunset lights an advertisement for antiques…. seemingly abandoned on a highway in California – Cawston’s eye for colour, structure and the beauty of the mundane finds a world-in-wait...

Ferry passenger taking the air in his thermal underwear on the deck of a ferry heading up the Yangste River – Cawston won the BJP Nikon Endframe Award in 2009. His prize was funding ...

Cawston won the BJP Nikon Endframe Award in 2009. His prize was funding for a dream project and he chose to travel the length of the Yangtze river from the Tibetan plateau to the bus...

The ubiquitous American motel, neon lit and rain soaked. – Cawston’s eye for colour, structure and the beauty of the mundane finds a world-in-waiting as he journeys across the Americ...

Colours once bright now muted… their exuberance dimmed but not lost on the streets of Yangon, Burma – The Spaces in Between series developed out of visits to Naples in Italy and Hav...

Cawston’s work has a very painterly feel in both his use of colour and choice of subject matter. He is particularly influenced by Edward Hopper and found this very Hopperesque scen...

An image to contemplate… a choice of red or blue… a conversation waiting to happen or one long past…. a journey into the light or into incarceration – The Spaces in Between series...

An image to contemplate… a choice of red or blue… a conversation waiting to happen or one long past…. a journey into the light or into incarceration – The Spaces in Between series...

An abandoned swimming pool in Havana. Shot on colour negative with a large format camera. – The Spaces in Between series developed out of visits to Naples in Italy and Havana in Cub...

The calm serenity of a frozen forest at night. An image of silence. – Cawston’s landscapes are filled with delicate harmonious tones. They resonate feeling and leave the viewer rapt, lost in the detail as if listening to the echoes of a half-remembered symphony. Poetical visions of paths and glades, ancient woods reflected in flood waters, nature revealed in its almost mythological beauty. Cawston’s images from the UK, Europe and America, convey a deeply-felt reverence for the natural world. – A larger format bespoke edition is also available on request. This custom edition of 3 pieces is produced to a client’s specifications. Typically this is for pieces greater than 250cm side. Please contact us for further details. Edition of 15 Presentation: Photographic print 5cm white border all around Signed by the Artist Certificate of Authenticity from the gallery Location: Mammoth Lakes...

Emerging from dereliction… new buildings arise in the shadow of Battersea Park Power Station. – Cawston’s Concrete Jungle is not a vision of the ultramodern, of orderly skyscrapers ...

A picture of Emptiness, Babylon… – Cawston’s Concrete Jungle is not a vision of the ultramodern, of orderly skyscrapers with comfortable interiors. It is rather of a Blade Runneresq...

Sunset over a distressed stairway of former grandeur in Salvador – The Spaces in Between series developed out of visits to Naples in Italy and Havana in Cuba, two cities whose past g...

The bright colours of a cafe in a poor district of Salvador in Brazil. – The Spaces in Between series developed out of visits to Naples in Italy and Havana in Cuba, two cities whose ...

The passing of time revealed in the dock buildings of Avonmouth, England. – Cawston’s Concrete Jungle is not a vision of the ultramodern, of orderly skyscrapers with comfortable inte...

The Empress cinema building in Manchester before its demise – Cawston’s Concrete Jungle is not a vision of the ultramodern, of orderly skyscrapers with comfortable interiors. It is ...

The Wills Building, an iconic building in Bristol. – Cawston’s Concrete Jungle is not a vision of the ultramodern, of orderly skyscrapers with comfortable interiors. It is rather of...

Strips of colour of a multi-storey car park, enhanced by the rain, in Singapore – Cawston’s Concrete Jungle is not a vision of the ultramodern, of orderly skyscrapers with comfortabl...

The green baize of an old pool table awaiting a buyer amidst the deep red of a storeroom. – The Spaces in Between series developed out of visits to Naples in...

A landscape from the Somerset Levels. – Cawston’s landscapes are filled with delicate harmonious tones. They resonate feeling and leave the viewer rapt, lost in the detail as if listening to the echoes of a half-remembered symphony. Poetical visions of paths and glades, ancient woods reflected in flood waters, nature revealed...

Dynamic shapes and colours seem almost otherwordly. Yangon, Burma – High-rise communal living was once seen as a great step forward for mankind. Cawston’s Tenement series captures ...

Life lived on the balcony… washing lines festoon the living environment in the humidity of Yangon, Burma. – High-rise communal living was once seen as a great step forward for manki...

Life lived on the balcony… washing lines festoon the living environment in the humidity of Yangon, Burma. – High-rise communal living was once seen as a great step forward for manki...

Communal living in Rio de Janeiro – High-rise communal living was once seen as a great step forward for mankind. Cawston’s Tenement series captures the individual within the collect...

A celebration of the art of graffiti drawn from various locations around the world… these pieces are part reality and part creation emphasizing the often ephemeral nature of street ...

A celebration of the art of graffiti drawn from various locations around the world… these pieces are part reality and part creation emphasizing the often ephemeral nature of street ...

A celebration of the art of grafitti bringing new life to the walls of Barcelona… these pieces are part reality and part creation emphasizing the often ephemeral nature of street art...

Roadsweeper on the streets of Yangon – Cawston won the BJP Nikon Endframe Award in 2009. His prize was funding for a dream project and he chose to travel the length of the Yangtze ri...

A celebration of the art of grafitti bringing new life to the walls of Barcelona… these pieces are part reality and part creation emphasizing the often ephemeral nature of street art...

Nga Phe Chaung Monastery emerging from the mists of Lake Inle – Cawston won the BJP Nikon Endframe Award in 2009. His prize was funding for a dream project and he chose to travel the...

Structure and abstraction – High-rise communal living was once seen as a great step forward for mankind. Cawston’s Tenement series captures the individual within the collective. By...

A celebration of the art of graffiti drawn from various locations around the world… these pieces are part reality and part creation emphasizing the often ephemeral nature of street ...