Bohuslav Barlow was born Bohuslav Klos 1947 in a small town in Upper Moravia, Czechoslovakia. His family fled Czechoslovakia as the iron curtain descended, and moved to Furstenfeldbruk near Munich. He moved again when he was 8 to join his mother in England, where she had found work and married. Bohuslav was given his stepfather’s name of Barlow, to connect him better with his new step-siblings, but also to help avoid the ramifications of people who were suspicious of anyone from Germany following the war.

Barlow used art from a young age to express himself and later went on to attend Manchester School of Art and then Central School of Art in London.

Barlow is still a full-time artist, working from his studio in Todmorden.

This original oil on paper is from the earlier years of his art career, dated 1988.

Frame measures 113cm x 93cm

Aperture 83cm x 61cm

Frame is contemporary and glazed with plexiglass.

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