Hazel Barker started her career at the age of eleven, when she won first prize in a national painting competition, and her headmistress commissioned a painting for her ancestral home in Scotland.

Hazel went on to study art at Reigate and Guildford Schools of Art and, on graduating, painted portraits on commission. One of these portraits was of a member of the Government and his dog!

She now lives in Sussex, creating both representational and semi-abstract paintings, many of which are based on her travels in France, Spain, Ireland and Italy. She particularly enjoys the excitement found in the strong patterns, colours and tones of the Mediterranean landscape.

Hazel has exhibited her work at numerous galleries including the Mall Gallery, London, and in Chelsea, Chichester, Guildford, Petworth, Tunbridge Wells and Brighton. Her work is also to be found in private collections in the UK, the USA, Norway, Sweden, Spain, France and Holland.  Hazel’s work has been collected by such household names as the presenter Michael Aspel OBE and most recently one of her pieces is ‘on set’ in the latest production by the producer of La La Land, Jordan Horowitz.

Would you like to see how an artwork will look on your wall before purchasing? We offer an ‘Art Visualisation’ Service which might help! This free service allows you to see how a painting would look in your home without it ever leaving the gallery. Just send us a photo of the space and wall where you would like to see the artwork and we will do the rest. If you can include some dimensions as a reference point it will help to scale the painting correctly against your wall.

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