Jeremy Barlow

Jeremy Barlow was born in 1945 at Kettering, Northamptonshire as a child he wanted nothing more than to be a cartoonist, he settled with doodling in pencil and working with an old set of watercolors.

It wasn’t until he began studying illustration at the Northampton School of Art that he was truly able to commit to his craft. He became a full-time artist in the 1970s. Inspired by the British landscape artist Stanley Orchart, Jeremy spent several years developing his own style of painting while following a successful career working in studios in London and the Midlands. In 1977, he moved to Germany and for the next 6 years concentrated on painting German, French, Belgian and Dutch landscapes and townscapes.

He returned to England in 1983 and since then has exhibited at many major venues including the Royal Academy of Arts, the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, the Royal Society of Marine Artists and the Royal Society of British Artists.

From sun-dappled Venetian balconies to busy boulevard cafés, weathered and intriguing shop fronts to quiet provincial villages, Jeremy Barlow delights and excels in painting wonderfully atmospheric and evocative scenes, reminiscent of one’s own experiences abroad.

A characteristic of Jeremy Barlow’s work is the way in which he creates an impressive interaction of light and dark. Jeremy Barlow uses the strong contrast of deep, rich shadows with pools of bright sunlight, so familiar in southern European countries, to great effect.

The work of Jeremy Barlow is represented in public, private and corporate collections worldwide. He was an elected member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI) and served as a council member from 1995 to 1999. He won the Stanley Grimm prize in 1994 and 2000 and the Alan Gourlay Memorial Prize in 1999 at the Annual ROI Exhibition at the Mall Galleries. British artists and major galleries in London, the provinces and further afield in the Netherlands, Germany and the USA, with over 200 successful one-man exhibitions since 1978.

Jeremy Barlow sadly passed away suddenly but peacefully on the 26th of November 2020 at his home in North Norfolk.