An immigrant to Canada from Australia in 1965, Barrie Chadwick holds citizenship of both those countries.He is an artist in love with landscapes and seascapes and “plein air”painting andtravels each year to obtain subjects for his art.

He has won awards with the Federation of Canadian Artists and International Artist Magazine. He represented by Rendezvous Art Gallery in Vancouver. He is a Senior Signature Member of the Federation of Canadian Artists with work in private and corporate collections in Canada and overseas.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

“When I was a young man (eighteen to be precise) the one thing I wanted in life, was to be an artist. My father persuaded me not to pursue art,(which he thought was not a secure profession) and so convinced me to become an architect, with the “clincher”--“You can do your art in your spare time” As any one older than thirty should know, when you are married with a career, kids, a mortage etc, there is no such thing as “spare time” At the age of sixty-three I found spare time, and have been painting ever since.Nothing in the world makes me happier than to take my sketch book and pencils/pens and my folding stool and to climb up (or part way up) a mountain, and sketch outdoors and make my teenage dream to be an artist, come true.”