Mike Barr is a Fellow of the Royal South Australian Society of Arts. He has won over 80 awards, including 17 first prizes. You can find more of Mike’s work at
www.mikebarrfineart.com
There is something about Impressionist paintings that can touch us like nothing else can – and it all comes down to the way we remember things. Our memories are rarely photographic images of events, but they are more than just a picture, too, and involve emotion. This emotional attachment to memory can also colour the picture and change it quite dramatically. Can you remember having a memory of a place, then seeing the reality and it being quite different? This is why impressionism comes closer to unlocking the emotional part of our memories.