Will Barton is an artist, illustrator, poet and elected member of the Free Painters, Sculptors & Printmakers, a British art movement with a seventy-year history.

Barton works from his studio/gallery on the edge of Morecambe Bay and the Lake District, an area of outstanding natural beauty, which has a profound influence on his work. His recent paintings explore this unique landscape with the coast, lakes and hills offering ever-changing natural drama. His work reveals a fascinating interaction between expressive abstraction and representation, echoing the sense of place, natural forms and forces.