Barry Cawston Art

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...

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...

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 echoes of a half-remembered symphony. Poetical visions of paths and glades, ancient woods reflected in flood waters, nature...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

High-rise in Rio de Janeiro each complete with the ubiquitous air conditioning units. 195 windows on Rio life. – High-rise communal living was once seen as a great step forward for ...

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...

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...

New age design in Charles de Gaulle airport. – The Spaces in Between series developed out of visits to Naples in Italy and Havana in Cuba, two cities...

Hotel Raj - the neon colours of a new India. 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 Yan...

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...

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...

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...

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 150cm and up to 230cm on the longest side. Please contact us for further details. Edition of 15 Presentation: Photographic print with acrylic face mount Signed by the Artist Certificate of Authenticity from the gallery Location: Mammoth...

Destination love in Las Vegas. – Cawston’s eye for colour, structure and the beauty of the mundane finds a world-in-waiting as he journeys across the American West. “The greatest par...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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. ...

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 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...

Light streams through a window illuminating an alcove in Hadrian’s Palace in Rome. A place to meditate over a book perhaps or record one’s thoughts in a journal – The Spaces in Bet...

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 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...

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...

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 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...

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...

The past reborn in the modern… the Paris Opera House reflected in one of the oldest department stores in the world. – The Spaces in Between series developed out of visits to Naples ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...