Barry the Bird

BARRY THE BIRD Acrylic on Canvas | 30" × 40" | 2020

His name is Barry. He has always been Barry. He will always be Barry.

A Emerald Toucanet of extraordinary plumage perches in the deep green of a tropical canopy, his oversized beak worn with the casual confidence of someone who has never once considered whether it is proportionate and never will. He is electric lime and forest green and the particular blue-grey of a bird who knows exactly where he stands in the hierarchy of beautiful things — which is near the top, and he is fine with that.

The jungle around him is painted with the same expressive urgency as the bird himself — deep greens, near-black shadow, flashes of acid yellow where light breaks through the canopy. Barry sits within it as if he has always been there and always will be, one bright eye regarding the world with the alert, slightly suspicious expression of someone who has seen things and formed opinions.

Barry the Bird is that rare thing — a painting with genuine personality. Not the personality of the subject, though Barry has plenty. The personality of a painter who named a toucanet Barry and committed to it completely, and in doing so made something that is simultaneously a serious piece of tropical bird painting and the most loveable work in the collection.

You will tell people his name. They will love him immediately.

📦 Shipping & Details

• 30" × 40" original acrylic on canvas
• Signed and dated 2020
• Ships stretched on timber stretcher bars — ready to hang
• No framing required
• Certificate of authenticity included

One original. No reproductions. His name is Barry.