Daniel Barkley <<ARTIST PAGE

Daniel Barkley was born in Montreal in1962. He holds a Master's degree in Fine Arts from Concordia University and has been painting for about twenty years. His paintings are in many private collections. He was awarded the A.J.Casson Medal for excellence in watercolour by the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour and in 2002 he was awarded 1st prize by the Society of Canadian Artists.

Daniel Barkley’s rich powerful canvases present contemporary people as allegorical figures, innocent in their anatomically faithful and unabashed nudity. Once the narrative of the canvases are absorbed, the viewer is immediately struck by the technical mastery of Barkley’s brush work. His talent speaks of years of experience and practice. But Barkley is still a young man ... and that only adds to the calibre of his talent.