....and I'm BACK!!!

 

Self Portrait and portrait of Ed (oil on canvas 2022.)

Things have been different for me after lockdown - I have made decisions about my future - which includes making choices. So I am now in phased retirement at University - but this also means that I am moving towards developing my own personal arts practice further. I am embracing some traditional processes and exploring oil painting, and also experimenting with things like simple animation and software like Procreate. Over the last couple of years I have been putting my work up on Instagram - you can see it here: https://www.instagram.com/trudybarber6/

I will be adding more content to this blog now - due to a few years of being totally consumed by academia!

Large portrait of urban artist 'My Dog Sighs' (oil on canvas 2023)

Posting some more work.... have been doing a lot during lockdown...

Some footage of my drawing in VR filmed by some of my final year students in 2018-19.

Thinking about lockdown and spending time drawing and thinking ... it has been a really strange time... things have slowed down considerably..Thinking about the past..

have been doing a lot more drawings....

Between managing my busy university teaching and research, I love to draw as often as possible - which doesn't leave me much time to work on this blog as you an see!
I have been doing some drawings using Leap Motion in VR as well as traditional sketching (film to come later...). I have also been fascinated by the political upheaval in the UK and have taken to drawing different members of parliament whilst I watch them on the TV.. It's sort of like my drawings of musicians - when someone is in 'the zone' of what they do... I like to see if I can capture that intensity...

  

  

 

Having fun with Doggy Drawings

Well.. I like a bit of a change... and as a contrast to my VR explorations, I have been doing some little doggy portraits from photographs over the winter holidays. It has been great fun, and I really enjoy doing them. One client sent me a video of his partner receiving one of my drawings - she was so pleased that she was in tears, and it was a romantic moment for them both... and I suddenly realised how important my drawings are to people, and how much pleasure my work gives them. If you would like a doggy drawing please do get in touch!