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It was one of Barnaby McBryde's artistic inspirations - Edward Burne-Jones - who said of his own work that it was a "beautiful dream of something that never was, never will be - in light better than any that ever shone - in a land no one can define, or remember, only desire."
Barnaby's work has been described as portraying "the way one always imagined the world should be." Oddly enough he himself claims that it represents the way that the world actually is. What may seem to be a 'beautiful dream' is merely the representation of those unseen realities that are found beyond the anguish and turmoil we take for facts. In his work we are presented with images which are ultimately tranquil.
A certain sense of poise pervades the images, a certain calm silence in which we begin to hope that the artist's claim is true; that this is the way things are.
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