Barry Cawston Art

Grain silos in pastel colours in the South of France. The muted colours are enhanced by a splash of yellow where corn has been spilt on the tarmac. – Cawston’s Concrete Jungle is no...

An avenue of ancient oaks… – 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 t...

The detritus of a technological society – Cawston’s Concrete Jungle is not a vision of the ultramodern, of orderly skyscrapers with comfortable interiors. It is rather of a Blade Ru...

An avenue of ancient oaks… – 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 t...

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 factory in Avonmouth. – Cawston’s Concrete Jungle is not a vision of the ultramodern, of orderly skyscrapers with comfortable interiors. It is rather of a Blade Runneresque postmo...

A sand storm blows across a gravel pit in South Africa. – Cawston’s Concrete Jungle is not a vision of the ultramodern, of orderly skyscrapers with comfortable interiors. It is rath...

A sand storm blows across a gravel pit in South Africa. – Cawston’s Concrete Jungle is not a vision of the ultramodern, of orderly skyscrapers with comfortable interiors. It is rath...

Rising like a phoenix from the dereliction of Battersea Power Station, London. – Cawston’s Concrete Jungle is not a vision of the ultramodern, of orderly skyscrapers with comfortable...

Rising like a phoenix from the dereliction of Battersea Power Station, London. – Cawston’s Concrete Jungle is not a vision of the ultramodern, of orderly skyscrapers with comfortable...

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. ...

Juggernaut on the highway crossing the American West… – Cawston’s eye for colour, structure and the beauty of the mundane finds a world-in-waiting as he journeys across the American ...

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...

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...

A table awaiting bread to be broken and wine to be drunk… – The Spaces in Between series developed out of visits to Naples in Italy and Havana in Cuba, two cities whose past glories ...

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 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 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...

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 glories are suffused with a fade...

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 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 lis...

Frozen fields illuminated by a surreal winter light… the sun barely visible… the colours cool but invigorating – Cawston’s landscapes are filled with delicate harmonious tones. The...

Fishermen at dawn on Lake Inle in Burma in total harmony with their surroundings. – Cawston won the BJP Nikon Endframe Award in 2009. His prize was funding for a dream project and he...

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...

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...

Modernity and repetition in New York City – High-rise communal living was once seen as a great step forward for mankind. Cawston’s Tenement series captures the individual within 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 ...

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...

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...

A waitress in Shanghai – 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 T...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Juggernaut on the highway crossing the American West… – Cawston’s eye for colour, structure and the beauty of the mundane finds a world-in-waiting as he journeys across the American ...

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...

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...

An avenue of ancient oaks… – 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 t...

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 ...

With immigration comes culture and culinary delights to light up the American skyline – Cawston’s eye for colour, structure and the beauty of the mundane finds a world-in-waiting as ...

A moonlit mystic forest. – 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...

The detritus of a technological society – Cawston’s Concrete Jungle is not a vision of the ultramodern, of orderly skyscrapers with comfortable interiors. It is rather of a Blade Ru...

The muted colours of yesteryear on show at an old forecourt in the South of France – Cawston’s Concrete Jungle is not a vision of the ultramodern, of orderly skyscrapers with comfort...

Rising like a phoenix from the dereliction of Battersea Power Station, London. – Cawston’s Concrete Jungle is not a vision of the ultramodern, of orderly skyscrapers with comfortable...

A deserted multi-storey car park in Bristol. – Cawston’s Concrete Jungle is not a vision of the ultramodern, of orderly skyscrapers with comfortable interiors. It is rather of a Bla...

A giant head with a VR headset installed as a new stage at the Glastonbury Festival. – Cawston’s Concrete Jungle is not a vision of the ultramodern, of orde...

A sand storm blows across a gravel pit in South Africa. – Cawston’s Concrete Jungle is not a vision of the ultramodern, of orderly skyscrapers with comforta...

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...

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...

Reliant Robin in blue – Cawston’s Concrete Jungle is not a vision of the ultramodern, of orderly skyscrapers with comfortable interiors. It is rather of a Blade Runneresque postmode...

A Soviet-era fridge and an American Singer sewing machine as found in Jorge’s kitchen. – The Spaces in Between series developed out of visits to Naples in Italy and Havana in Cuba, t...

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...

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 wide. Please contact us for further details. Edition of 12 Presentation: Photographic print Signed by the Artist Certificate of Authenticity from the gallery Location: Mammoth Lakes...

A giant head with a VR headset installed as a new stage at the Glastonbury Festival. – Cawston’s Concrete Jungle is not a vision of the ultramodern, of orde...

A giant head with a VR headset installed as a new stage at the Glastonbury Festival. – Cawston’s Concrete Jungle is not a vision of the ultramodern, of orde...

Space age stanchion or age old factory… – Cawston’s Concrete Jungle is not a vision of the ultramodern, of orderly skyscrapers with comfortable interiors. It is rather of a Blade Ru...