Be our guest - a wild, colorful world awaits you, where things are not always as they seem...a drink of tea turns tentacular on you, it seems that Death rides a skateboard on his way to his appointments, and standing by the Edgar Allan Poe portrait, well, you can just hear the tintinnabulation of the bells...fun, fun, fun!!

 

We are delighted to present the lively silk screen art of graphic artist and designer Barry Barnes.  His company, Trained Eye Graphics, also provides art direction, design and illustration services for clients like KitchenAid, Cuisinart and Macy's department stores.

 

Sideline artwork includes book covers, cd covers and other design and illustration assignments for for John R. Platt, and authors Mark McLaughlin, Joe R. Lansdale, Thomas Disch, and Brian Keene.

 

He is the proud recipient of 10 American Graphic Design Awards, given for excellence in American design by Graphic Design USA magazine. Barry's art as been included in the Los Angeles Society of Illustrators annual Illustration West art exhibit. Recent digital illustrations can be seen in the books Aphrodisia 2; Art of the Female Form, The World's Greatest Erotic Art Of Today, Vol. 3, Creativity 39, and the 2008 through 2011 prestigious 3x3 Magazine Directory of Illustration. His silk screen prints have sold in galleries in both the U.S and Canada. Barry continues to work as an illustrator, designer and fine art silk screen print maker.

 

All prints are hand-pulled, printed on Legion's paper "Folio," bright white vellum and acid free, using Union Company Aerotex water-based screen printing inks; artwork done the old-fashioned way, by hand and with imagination. 

 

Colorful, lively, alternative artwork - sure to please the eye and senses!  Bring your sense of humour, and come and enjoy the show!