My artworks, photographed below, are available for sale.
Please do scroll down this page to view them all……
Contact me on email: linbarrie@gmail.com or visit my Lin Barrie Art Facebook Page:
Please bear with me if I do not answer queries immediately, since Clive and I often travel in wilderness areas, away from easy internet access. This has its advantages, since I am inspired by travel, wilderness and culture, so I paint intensively while I am out of email contact!
Lin Barrie: +263 772 922148 or +263 772 219204
Caged Culture… an art assemblage of colonial wire bird cage, traditional Xibelani dance skirt, Zimbabwe National Fabric, Clay pot and beads, giant snail shells…….
Celebrating Dulux colours of the year 2026 – Slow Swing, Mellow Flow, Free Groove- my paintings theme music and dance- and these two are on show at the Dulux colour room in Harare – Rhythm in Blues, acrylic pva on stretched canvas, 110 x 120 cm 2026..
Hip Hop Blues, 2026, mixed media on stretched canvas, 100 x 100 cm
Working towards an exhibition at Loft 3 Gallery, Harare, “We Dance to Many Rhythms”…
Here is a sneak preview, a ‘sticker’, of one of my dance figures……watch this space….
Much of my current works use Khuhlu Bark dye, traditional colour gleaned locally from the bark of the Trichelia emetica…..
The dance of LIFE… Dog Dance 1 and 2, acrylic and khuhlu bark dye on loose primed canvas, 60 x 45 cm, sety against a piece of bark dye calico…
A wonderful collaboration with UpState Restaurant in Harare, resulted in “Palms, People and Baobabs‘ exhibition…
Clay 80 x 180 cm acrylic and earth pigment /clay on loose canvas, with “Water and Earth” 153 x 170 cm acrylic on canvas ….
Dance 85 X 180 cm Acrylic and beads on loose canvas, 2024 painting title “Ngano and Fire” 153 x 170 cm acrylic on canvas…
Dance Abstract 1, acrylic on stretched canvas, 76 x 101 cm, 2025
Dance Abstract 2, acrylic on stretched canvas, 76 x 101 cm, 2025
dance abstract, carmine flight on loose canvas….
Dancing Dogs, acrylic and mixed media on stretched canvas, 2 x 3 feet,
Dance, Elephant Bull, acrylic and mixed media on stretched canvas, 3 x 2 feet,
Dance with goatskin skirt, acrylic mixed media on canvas, 3 x 2 feet
Dance Xibelani, acrylic mixed media on canvas, 3 x 2 feet
Koi Dance. acrylic mixed media on loose canvas, 132 x 130 cm, 2025
Look! Look to your wings…. Cheuka 2025, Acrylic and oil pastel on loose or draped canvas, 155 cm x 260 cm, 2025……draped version
The flora, the trees, in my environment always are inspiration…
Msasa diptych Acrylic on loose canvas Each 50 x 40 cm
bougainvillea…. joyful colour…
Baobabs never fail to entrance me, their flowers like blowsy faded ballerinas’ skirts…
Hanging in the tree they are a magnet for beetles and bees by day, and fruit bats by night…
Day lilies 1,2,3,4-each is acrylic on stretched canvas, A3
Day Lilies I and II , acrylic on stretched canvas, each 60 x 84 cm…
Earth Heart 1, acrylic and earth pigment, with poetry, on loose canvas, 90 x 90 cm
Earth Heart 2, acrylic and earth pigment, with poetry, on loose canvas, 90 x 90 cm
Eclipse Harvest Moon I, acrylic on stretched canvas, 61 x 61 cm
Eclipse Harvest Moon II, acrylic on stretched canvas, 61 x 61 cm
“Dark Clouds, Skeletons of Leaves”
Elephant Bull, Mixed media and traditional fabric collage on loose canvas 180 x 130 cm
Baobab Dance, mixed media on loose canvas, 178 x 157 cm
Elephant Dance, mixed media on loose canvas, 178 x 157 cm….
Night Sky, baobab and palm, oil on canvas, 80 x 119 cm …
Water and ocean inspirations….
Ocean Fire 1 and 2, acrylic on loose canvas, each 87 x 89 cm…
Oceanscape, Rocks and Ocean, acrylic on loose canvas, 90 x 180 cm
Sea Urchin Skeletons 1-10, acrylic on stretched canvas, each 21 x 21 cm…
Shoal, loose canvas, 61 x 91 cm 2021 – (inspiration for an abstract wallpaper in my Robin Sprong Range…)
Oceanscape, Acrylic on canvas, 90 x180 cm….
Trigger Fish Territory, acrylic on loose canvas, 87 x 180 cm….
Turtle 1, acrylic on loose canvas, 87 x 90 cm….
Turtle 2, acrylic on loose canvas, 87 x 90 cm….
The Curl, acrylic on loose canvas, 90 x 86 cm …
The Swell, acrylic on loose canvas, 90 x 86 cm …
The Curl and the Swell, as a diptych, acrylic on loose canvas, 90 x 86 cm ….
White Water, acrylic on loose canvas, 87 x 180 cm….
Sacred Ibises, acrylic on loose canvas, 100 x 180 cm …
Rose Gold Pangolin, acrylic on stretched canvas, 3 x 3 feet…
Blue waterlilies, acrylic on stretched canvas, 2 x 3 feet….
Anthurium diptych, acrylic on stretched canvas, 61 x 61 cm,
Lin Barrie, Fire, acrylic on canvas , 120 x 180 cm..
Lin Barrie, Water, acrylic on canvas, 120 x 180 cm
Baobab Ridge, acrylic on loose canvas, 32 x 98 cm
Baobab Chishakwe, mixed media on stretched canvas, (acrylic and charcoal), 90 x 90 cm ….
Tree and Baobab, acrylic /charcoal, 91 x 91 cm …
Baobabs landscape, charcoal/acrylic mixed media on canvas, 120 x 158 cm
When baobab flowers fall to the ground they are exquisitely vulnerable, beautiful in their decay….Can’t get enough of these shapes, crinkles and character…
Inspired by the Cape, Fynbos, Environment, Wines and Landscape…
Old Vine, acrylic on canvas, 90 x 83 cm….
West Coats deliciousness…. Mussels, acrylic on canvas, 79 x 89 cm……
Fynbos, Langebaan, acrylic on canvas,
in the winelands of the Cape….Flora, acrylic on canvas, 90 x 87 cm..
Franschoek, Valley of Dreams…. Valley, Dreams, Culture, mixed media on canvas, 180 x 115 cm..
Flower Fest – Crabs Claws, acrylic on loose canvas, 90 x 90 cm…
Flower Fest – Strelitzias, acrylic on loose canvas, 90 x 90 cm
Msasa…Big Tree, Bright Skies, acrylic and charcoal on loose canvas, 208 x 180 cm….
Palm Passion, acrylic on stretched canvas, 4 x 3 feet….
Palm Print diptych, Phoenix reclinata fronds, acrylic on stretched canvas, each 40 x 40 cm
Rainforest and Falls, acrylic on stretched canvas, 122 x 91,5 cm….
Victoria Falls, acrylic on stretched canvas, 2 x 3 feet..
phoenix palm fronds allover sample duvet…
Phoenix Palm leaves monoprint, Mixed media on canvas 120 x 158 cm ….
Phoenix reclinata I and II, diptych, acrylic on stretched canvas, 61 X 61 cm ….
Human wildlife challenges, domestic and wild animal conflict, are reflected in my two paintings….Goat Mbudzi Acrylic on chitenge cloth 91 x 61 cm and Wild Dog Mhume Acrylic on chitenge cloth 91 x 61 cm, 2025 ……
Wild dogs paintings recently….
Playing Dogs, acrylic on loose canvas, final size stretched would be as shown 40 x 154 cm…
Inspiration for a hand painted fabric range used by Jasper of Ivhu Tribe, here are my paintings….
Porcupine, wild dog and leopard impressions, monotype/dulux pva on canvas, 153 x 507 cm aerial view…
Porcupine, wild dog and leopard impressions, collage on painted stretched canvas, 174 x 152 cm…
Our Totem at Kaya Nyala, as part of Chief Mahenye’s village, is the Giant African Land Snail, the Humba….
my wild dog paintings, Going….1 and 2, mixed media, on canvas boards, each 51 x 76 cm, visualized with Brave Ground, Dulux colour of the year 2021…
Two portraits created for an exhibition ition Burnt Offerings….
portrait burnt offerings, mixed media on stretched canvas, 84,5 x 60 cm
portrait re-invention, mixed media on stretched canvas, 84,5 x 60 cm…
For the strange year of Covid in the world, responded with my brush, with handmade charcoal… preparatory crow and hand sketches for paintings….
Charcoal, (my own handmade hardwood), makes satisfying marks…
and I push it from crows to plague doctors of the medieval ages, shades of pandemics through the centuries…..
In response to the Covid pandemic I have created various art videos….
Art Slideshow/video by Lin Barrie:
Title:“to touch…or not to touch”.
video You Tube linkhttps://youtu.be/SN-u4TI0nTw
Hands, touch, separation, socialization and isolation being my theme, and how as social animals we need to find solutions to the way we interact, the way we treat each other…
Covid/social theme, Hand on Heart is a traditional Changana greeting, perfectly stating warmth, respect and care for the other person without having to actually touch…
Hand on Heart, charcoal/acrylic on stretched canvas, 3 x 2 feet….
To Touch or Not to Touch“, acrylic and charcoal on canvas, 91 x 91 cm….
HANDS ON HEARTS, acrylic on loose canvas, 90 x 128cm….
STATE OF CORONA, acrylic on loose canvas, 90 x 128 cm….
Nothing to Hide II, acrylic and charcoal on brown handmade paper, 49 x 64 cm…
Nothing to Hide, mixed media on stretched canvas, 91 x 91 cm….
Social Distance, acrylic/charcoal on stretched canvas, 66 x 128 cm …..
Embrace Equity, National Gallery exhibition, mixed media on stretched canvas, 150 x 200 cm ….
Embrace Equity, triptych, mixed media on canvas, each is A3 size
Lala (Ilala) palms, indigenous to our lowveld river wilderness in Zimbabwe…
(Ignore the plastic covering reflections!)
I can’t stay away from wild dogs:
“Reverie 2”, mixed media on brown craft paper, 64 x 91 cm, (this one is available at Madikwe Hills Private Game Lodge)
“Reverie 3”, mixed media on brown craft paper, 64 x 91 cm
Birds are close to my heart….and I love painting them in flight,
Hornbills I, acrylic on loose canvas, 104 x 179 cm….
Going Places 1, mixed media on stretched canvas, 3 x 4 feet….. sold for VAWZ charity
Culture is Life, Life is Water, Water is Culture, acrylic on stretched canvas, 2 x 4 feet
Cheetah Hunting …acrylic on stretched canvas…… 60 x 60 cm
Wild dogs hunting….acrylic on stretched canvas…… 60 x 60 cm
Hornbills are fascinating birds….here is ‘Hornbill and Diamond’, acrylic on stretched canvas, 120 x 80 cm
Acrylic on stretched canvas
120 x 80 cm
Chanagana dancer, oil on stretched canvas, 130 x 80 cm
Black rhino portrait, acrylic on loose canvas, 79 X 77 cm…
Full moon baobab 1, acrylic on deep stretched canvas, 35 x 46 cm….
Full moon baobab 2, acrylic on deep stretched canvas, 35 x 46 cm…..
Here is one of my Series of MaChangana Hut Paintings..oil on canvas .
Below are my paintings of some of the glorious indigenous palms of Zimbabwe, common along our large rivers such as the Zambezi and the Save….
Lala palm sunset, acrylic on loose canvas, 103 x 180 cm…..
Phoenix reclinata , oil on canvas, 80 x 80 cm
Phoenix reclinata, acrylic on loose canvas, 145 x 86 cm,
River Reflections, acrylic on loose canvas, 80 x 180 cm…available at the Cape Gallery
Jacarandas, acrylic on stretched canvas, 120 x 110 cm….
White Roses, acrylic on stretched canvas, 110 x 80 cm…
Pink waterlilies I and II, acrylic on stretched canvas, each panel 2 x 2 feet, and here they are against the gorgeous Borrowdale Brooke dam that inspired me….
Rosette, acrylic on stretched canvas, 50 x 50 cm:
Water lilies, acrylic on stretched canvas, 130 x100 cm, available at Gordon’s select bed and Breakfast, Mutare…
Field sketches are vital to my art, immediate and powerful, and then I can work them up into bigger canvases…
Baobab sketch, acrylic on craft paper, 65 x 46 cm, unframed…
Trees are fascinating to draw, such diverse shapes…
Acacia diptych, acrylic on paper, 64 x 46 panel 1, 64 x 39 panel 2
acrylic on craft paper
64 x 46 panel 1
64 x 39 panel 2
Dogs in the dust, acrylic on stretched canvas, 100 x 200 cm, available at Perold Wine Cellar in UK https://www.facebook.com/PeroldWineCellar/
Ground hornbills are threatened…..
acrylic on craft paper
46 x 64 cm
Zimbabwe flag colours!……
Zimbabwe Bird!, Acrylic on stretched canvas, 44 x 44 cm
Acrylic on stretched canvas
44 x 44 cm
My inspiration being the incredible purple haze of the Jacaranda season in Zimbabwe, I have painted Purple season, acrylic on stretched canvas, 90 x 90 cm:
“Zebra Energy, Baobab Burnt”, acrylic/mixed media on stretched canvas, 150 x 200 cm… a Zebra totem..
Detail from the painting “Zebra Energy, Baobab Burnt”
Here is a mixed media installation called “Zebra Totem….
“Zebra Totem”……acrylic/mixed media and burnt wooden door…….200 x 100 cm
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Stripes at War, acrylic on stretched canvas, 61 x 61 cm
Impala skull studies…….oil on canvas
Baobab Dance, acrylic on stretched canvas, 91 x 61 cm on display at Chilo Gorge Safari Lodge SOLD
Albida Season, acrylic on stretched canvas, 91 x 91 cm,
Recent works celebrate colour, such as the vibrant rust of Mopani leaves against cobalt winter skies…
Mopani Sky, acrylic on stretched canvas, 31 x 31 cm….
and the glow of acacia thorns against the late afternoon sky as I drive back home from the Nyarushanga Pack Den….
Thorny sunset, acrylic on stretched canvas, 31 x 31 cm
Mopani Leaves are fabulous painting subjects..
Mopane Winter 1….acrylic on stretched canvas…..31 x 41 cm
The silver glow of Terminalia sericea leaves in Gonarezhou Park throughout the dry season have always inspired me….
Now!….on to Msasas……fond memories of their rusts, pinks and golds, as winter gives way to spring in the highveld of Zimbabwe…..A real Colour Burst!
Msasa triptych, acrylic on stretched canvases, each panel 2 x 3 feet
My Msasa abstract 1,2 and 3 are acrylic on deep-stretched canvas, each being 23 x 30 cm
Russet colours in the Mopani during winter, inspired this painting ..one of a diptych…
Mopani leaf butterflies 1, acrylic on stretched canvas, 61 x 91 cm
and here is the whole diptych….
Embracing the glowing rust leaves, I have painted the wild dogs lying at the den that I have been watching on Senuko…
Dogs in Mopani 1, acrylic on loose canvas, 70 x 105 cm
Dogs in Mopani 2, acrylic on loose canvas, 70 x 105 cm, available at Madikwe Hills Private Game Lodge
Elephants, elephants, elephants…!
Mahove Bull, acrylic on canvas board
2 X 3 feet
Mahove Cows, acrylic on canvas board, 2 x 3 feet
Mahove Cows II, acrylic on canvas board, 2 x 3 feet
I am often surrounded by these awesome and usually gentle giants in my daily life, so I never fail to sketch and love them…as well as the African wild dogs of course….
And the local Nguni cattle, stunning coats to paint…
Lin Barrie, Saturn and Jupiter in Conjunction, mixed media on stretched canvas, 3 x 2 feet:
“Colourburst Cosmos” 1 and 2 are wow, wild and inspirational….acrylic on stretched canvas, each panel is 81 x 51 cm: SOLD
“Woodland Sunset” (a triptych), acrylic on stretched canvas, each panel 30 X 30 cm
at my Harare studio, Dozy Dog and PUPS, in Mopani, acrylic on loose canvas, 100 x 100 cm,
Baobab Beauty, acrylic on loose canvas, 100 x 100 cm
Mirage- Chilojo Cliffs, acrylic on loose canvas, 79 x 206 cm
and Chilojo Cliffs (diptych) in the Green season…acrylic on loose canvas, each panel about 70 x 90 cm….
Endangered pangolins fascinate me…
Pangolin Curl, acrylic on craft paper, 65 x 91 cm
Old Gold Pangolin on loose canvas, 53 x 97 cm, at my Kaya Nyala bush house
Rose Gold Pangolin, acrylic on loose canvas, 57 X 93 cm
back as always to my favorites, African wild dogs…
The Hunters, acrylic on loose canvas, 80 x 200 cm
Pep Rally I, acrylic on loose canvas, 104 x 179 cm….
Pep Rally II, acrylic on loose canvas, 104 x 179 cm….available at Madikwe Hills Private Game Lodge
“Resting I”, acrylic on loose canvas, 104 x 179 cm:
“Resting II”, acrylic on loose canvas, 104 x 179 cm: available at Madikwe Hills Private Game Lodge
“Resting III”, acrylic on loose canvas, 104 x 179 cm: Perold Wine Cellar https://www.facebook.com/PeroldWineCellar/
Wild Dog Duet, acrylic on loose canvas, 104 X 180 cm
Wild Dog Portrait 1 and 2 as a diptych, acrylic on canvas, each 88 x 62 cm….
Wild Dog Stretching, mixed media on stretched canvas, 90 x 90 cm ….
Wild dog, lone dog, acrylic on loose canvas, 61 x 88 cm ….
Wild Dog, Where to from here? 2024, acrylic on loose canvas, 80 x 72 cm..
Wild Dogs, Dusk Patrol, acrylic on canvas, 156 x 193 cm, 2025..
Wild Dogs, Life is for Living, acrylic on canvas, 156 x 193 cm, 2025…
Wild dogs, part of the pack, acrylic on loose canvas, 61 x 88 cm ….
Wild Dogs, Where to from here? 2024, acrylic on loose canvas, 90 x 109 cm…
Acacia, acrylic on stretched canvas, 3 x 4 feet on display at Borrowdale Brooke Club, Harare
Fever trees, acrylic on stretched canvas, 3 x 4 feet, on display at Borrowdale Brooke Club, Harare
Mahove baobab, acrylic on green handmade paper, 40 X 50 cm
Rose Lichen I, acrylic on loose canvas, 59 x 41cm inner edge of frame
Rose Lichen II, acrylic on loose canvas, 35 x 49 cm inner edge of frame
Moonbeam, acrylic on loose canvas, 95 X 65 cm, available through Tusk Trust UK
Mopani Winter Woodland, acrylic on loose canvas, 80 x 180 cm….
Fallen Tree, acrylic on loose canvas, 87 x 200 cm
Water Eddies, acrylic on loose canvas, 80 x 180 cm
Strelitzia nicolae leaves, acrylic on loose canvas, 144 x 86 cm
available at Perold Wine Cellar https://www.facebook.com/PeroldWineCellar/
Victoria falls inspiration:
Devil’s cataract at dusk, acrylic on loose canvas, 70 x 105 cm…
River Runs….I and II diptych, acrylic on loose canvas, 80 x 100 and 80 x 80
Devil’s cataract at dawn, acrylic on loose canvas, 70 x 105 cm…
White Water, acrylic on canvas board, 61 x 91 cm…..
Puppy Love I, acrylic on brown craft paper, 34 x 47 cm (A3)
Puppy Love III, Acrylic on brown craft paper, 34 x 47 cm (A3)
Pups, acrylic on handmade paper, I42 x 59 cm
“Alyssum and Petunias”, acrylic on canvas, framed, 61 x 91 cm actual painting (larger with frame)
“Moody palm I and II”, diptych, acrylic on loose canvas, 70,5 x 74,5 cm
“Moody Blue River”, acrylic on loose canvas, 78 x 124 cm
New Dawn, diptych, acrylic on stretched canvas, each 61 x 61 cm….
“Dancing with my sisters, Dancing with my cellphone…” acrylic, beadwork on deep-stretched canvas, 3 x 4 feet
Pantone colour of the year for 2019 is “Living Coral”, and look how it meshes with my artwork!……
“Soft Spring a”, acrylic on stretched canvas, 2 x 2 feet…
“Soft Spring b”
Aloes are a favourite for me, bird magnets and indigenous to our lowveld areas, these Chabaudii brighten up our Zimbabwean winters….
Bushveld Dawn, acrylic on loose canvas, 88 x 90 cm
“Alone Again”, acrylic on loose canvas, 86 x 90 cm
“Chaperones and pups”, acrylic on loose canvas, 90 x 114 cm
“Resting’, acrylic on loose canvas, 90 x 114 cm
“Two is better than One”, acrylic on loose canvas, 90 x 86 cm
“Copper Dawn”, acrylic on loose canvas, 90 x 88 cm :
“Waterlilies”, acrylic on loose canvas, 94 x 104 cm lo res
Various paintings: “Msasa”diptych, 2 x 2 feet, acrylic on stretched canvas plus albida pods and kigelia flowers on my wallpaper soft silt at The Showroom, borrowdale racecourse:
“After the Storm”, acrylic on stretched canvas, 2 x 3 feet lo res
Aloe I, and Aloe II, acrylic on blue handmade paper, 60 x 44 cm:
Chilojo Panorama II, acrylic on canvas board, 30 x 80 cm:
Crossandras and Wildebeeste Skull, acrylic, 2 x 3 feet:
Wild Dogs and cattle, wildlife and communities, co-existing….
Wild dogs hunting, sunrise,sunset , acrylic on loose canvas, 60 x 100 cm
Wild dogs playing, sunrise, sunset, acrylic on loose canvas, 60 x 100 cm
Wild dog running, sunrise,sunset , acrylic on loose canvas, 60 x 100 cm
Nguni Sunset, acrylic on loose canvas, 55 x 90 cm
Pincushion, Leucospermum veld fire, acrylic on canvas, 2 x 2 feet, poem by Lin Barrie
Borassus Palms landscape, Mixed media on canvas 120 x 158 cm,….
Lala/Borassus Palm leaves 2 Monoprint Acrylic on canvas 158 x 120 cm , monotype using actual palm leaves…
Spring Colour, mixed media on canvas board, a tondo, in the round, 3 feet diameter:
Wild Dogs Hunting, mixed media on stretched canvas, 60 x 90 cm
Wild Dogs Playing, mixed media on loose canvas, 106 x 179 cm
Bouquet, acrylic on stretched canvas, 3 x 2 feet
Wild Dog Moon Dog mixed media on stretched canvas, 60 x 60 cm sold?
The colours of spring into summer …
Birds Burnished, triptych, mixed media on stretched canvas, each 60 x 60 cm
Carmine bee-eaters, migrants from the north, arrive into Zimbabwe …
Immigrant Flamboyant trees splash red across Africa, from the beaches of Mauritius to the streets of Harare..
One ot two very large paintings – Flamboyants I, Acrylic on loose canvas, 110 x 180 cm
Sunrise and Egrets, acrylic on stretched canvas, 78 x 165 cm,
Strelitzias constantly inspire me, taking flight with their orange and gold spathes….
Strelitzia Flight (diptych), mixed media on stretched canvas, each painting is 91 x 61 cm…
Strelitzias, mixed media on loose canvas, 55 x 180 cm
Strelitzia Leaves, acrylic monotype, 90 x 180 cm….
Strelitzia Mandela Gold and Kudu Horns, acrylic on canvas, 3 x 3 feet …..
In my garden, roses burst into blowsy magnificence …
Agapanthus diptych mixed media on stretched canvas each is 61 x 91 cm
Crinum Lilies- indigenous to the lowveld wilderness…
Flame lilies bloom at Christmas, in the rainy season in Zimbabwe-
Lin Barrie, ”At the Market, mixed media, 4x 3 feet
At the Market, painting and poem by Lin Barrie
At the Market poem by Lin Barrie
At the market and masked,
none of us breathe deep.
Muzzled and muffled,
we recycle our own stale air
instead of stopping…
Stopping to smell.
Stopping to suck
the sweet scent of bunched flowers
harvested from the farm,
plucked from the garden.
Flowers are livelihoods…
Livelihoods for industrious farmers who grow rows rows and more rows of kalaidescopic colour and scent. Blossoms and greenery ripe for plucking, packing, and shipping to markets in far cities and suburbs.
Livelihoods for florists, stylists, event divas and upmarket coffee shops who create bundles of celebration, bunches of hope, bouquets of scented sadness, posies of love, wreathes of loss and remembrance.
Livelihoods for street hawkers who count their pennies and buy chrysanthemums and arum lilies at the flower market, to sell as they crouch under patchy thatch shelters next to second hand clothes, mobile phone chargers and plastic shoes at dusty roadside markets
Livelihoods for the jobless who can count no pennies and who gather faded rejected blooms from the market to sell somehow, somewhere. Who gather, from the wild, protected flame lilies and leopard orchids. Botanical attractions to sell on the side of potholed dusty roads or to hawk to slow moving drivers at congested intersections.
Flowers are gifts…
fresh for giving,
faded for selling.
Flowers are
Solace to the bereaved,
Joy to the beloved,
Hope to the ill,
Sweet balm to the depressed.
A reminder to the cynical, to be less so.
Take off your mask, your muzzle…..
bury your nose
in the petals
of a rose.
Take off your glasses, your rose tinted spectacles…
rest your eyes
on the beauty
of a flower.
Lin Barrie
“Emergence” is a huge painting on my theme of ’burnt offerings’… the need to rise above our worldly challenges and travails, to re-invent ourselves, take flight… SOLD
Freedom, Flight, Re-invention, is a recurring theme for me……..
Here is ”Nike”, acrylic on canvas diptych, each painting is A3 size
my draped canvas collage titled “Freedom”, exhibited at the Gallery Delta Freedom exhibition 2021/2022 ….
Fire Flight or Fight, acrylic on draped canvas, 250 cm wide
Always I am inspired by the ancient Greek goddess, Nike……
Nike, Freedom I, Winged Goddess of Victory, mixed media on loose canvas, 140 x 90 cm
taking flight, winged woman, voluntary voluptuousness, mixed media on stretched canvas, 91 x 61 cm …..
my fields sketches are closely entwined with flight, wings….
flight sketch 1 by Lin Barrie, acrylic on brown paper, A0 size
Freedom is an elusive state, constrained not only by real boundaries …but by your mind
Bright Sky, Burnt Offering; Zimbabwe Bird Acrylic/charcoal on stretched and draped canvas 70 x 70 cm, plus draped canvas to 165 x 85 cm…..
Burnt Offerings, acrylic and metallic gold on stretched canvas, 3 x 4 feet …….
burnt protea 3, charcoal and acrylic on box framed canvas, A3 size plus frame
burnt protea 1, charcoal and acrylic on box framed canvas, A3 size plus frame..
Abstract Burnt Offerings, acrylic on canvas, 260 x 180 cm
Abstract Fire Frass 1 and 2, acrylic on canvas, 145 x 120 cm and 145 x 39 cm
Is any of the art for sale?
Yes Jenn, email me on linbarrie@gmail.com
yes…
Freedom of charcoal and acrylic trace the eye that passionately sees. Life is brought onto paper and canvas.
Wonderful comment thank you Cosmos
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Your art is incredibly beautiful.
thank you!
Thank you so much!
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What sort of price would one be looking at for your protea / strelitzia and Zimbabwe bird paintings?
Hello Hazel, please do email me and I can respond to your queries..
linbarrie@gmail.com
Hi Hazel please email me linbarrie@gmail.com
Beautiful art. It all conj ours up a deep African feeling of taste , touch and smell. So alive.
thank you kindly for your lovely comments!
Beautiful work. I like the contrast between the background and foreground. It brings out character in your work. Because of the subtlety of the background the main attraction speaks with force that is not easy to ignore.
Thank you!
Hi Lin your black rhino portrait is amazing can I enquire about the price
thank you Tim, please email me on linbarrie@gmail.com
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Beautiful Paintings! Lin
Thank you!
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Hi your paintings are amazing and remind me so much of my early life in Zim.
Now living in Australia but still painting.
Regards Chris
thnks for your comments Chris…keep painting!
Great stuff Lin, Love to post some of your work. Thanks very much. Endangered Wildlife Artwork.
Thanks…of course you may!
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hie.I enjoyed the Chilo lodge and Gonerezhou National Parks this past holidays.I saw your paintings of the Wild Dog at Chilo Lodge and was impressed.Would want one of the same at a reasonabke price of cause.I have enjoyed your other paintings and hoping to see the face behind the works.
I look forward to meeting you!
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Hi Lynn,
Do you have any of your artwork in Vic Falls?
Thank you,
Nancy Knight
Greetings Nancy- not at present – most of m work is in harare at my art studio
Hi Nancy, update: some of my work will be on display with the National Gallery in Vic Falls when the space opens….
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