Description
This lovely oil painting ‘Yellow Horns From The Attic Window’ signed by the artist Bohuslav Barlow in the lower right corner. This painting is finished with a High-Quality black and gold frame and a white slip.
About Bohuslav Barlow
Bohuslav Barlow was born Bohuslav Klos in the town of Bruntál, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) in 1947.
In 1955, aged eight, he moved to Blackpool, England, to join his mother and stepfather (from whom he took the surname Barlow) it was here he began his artistic career, beginning with pencil and crayon on paper.
He went on to attend Manchester School of Art, where oil paints were introduced to his repertoire, then going on to study Fine Art at the Central School of Art in London.
He began exhibiting with the South‑East London Art Group in 1970.
In 1973, during a journey from London to Blackburn, Barlow passed through Todmorden in the Pennine region of West Yorkshire. Struck by the town’s dramatic topography and architectural character, he elected to relocate there at the age of 26.
Since then, the area’s romantic landscapes, vernacular stone structures, and the visible remnants of the Industrial Revolution have constituted a sustained source of artistic influence. His artwork frequently presents intensely coloured backgrounds inhabited by nudes and other figures. Barlow additionally uses clowns and life‑size puppets as performative props and models within his compositional process.
Barlow continues to live and work in Todmorden, where he maintains both a gallery and a studio.
His works are represented in several UK public collections, including those of Rochdale Art Gallery and Museum, Leeds City Council, and the Brontë Society in West Yorkshire.
He also became a member of the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts in 1991 and subsequently joined the Society of Graphic Fine Art in 1992. Prior to these, he exhibited with the Royal Society of Painters, Etchers and Engravers, the Royal Academy Summer Show, and the Pastel Society at the Mall Galleries, London.
His participation in group exhibitions has been extensive, ranging from Hartnoll & Eyre in London 1976, as well as recurring contributions to the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts from 1982 onward, additionally he had inclusion in a 1987 presentation of Calderdale artists at the House of Commons.
