Landscapes My Way

Art created by people with disabilities has a distinctive edge and speaks of triumph over adversity. This talented South Australian landscape specialist is a mouth painter.

Edited by Trevor Lang

Glenn Barnett of Port Lincoln in South Australia is a Member of Mouth & Foot Painting Artists Pty Ltd. He delights in painting beautiful landscapes with brushes held in his mouth. Like many artists, Glenn has developed his skills over the years and experimented with a whole range of mediums. “After a few years of painting with watercolours, I turned to oil paints. I enjoyed their flexibility; the way they worked into each various colour, and the ability to wipe off a mistake,” Glenn explains. “Then, in the mid 1970s, I tried acrylics. At this time I was talking to schools and community groups and demonstrating how I painted. It did not take long before I found it very difficult to actually achieve much of a result painting quickly with oils –…

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