The Foyer – Southampton City Art Gallery

The Foyer features a changing programme of exhibitions from local and emerging artists alongside community and arts groups.

The City Art Gallery’s Foyer Exhibition Space, located at the base of the stairwell to the main entrance of the Gallery and City Library, offers a unique opportunity for artists to have their work seen by a diverse audience, including gallery and library visitors, staff, and those passing through the Civic.

The Foyer is dedicated to showcasing the work of local and emerging artists, if you would like to express an interest in exhibiting – more details can be found here…

Katie Barons is an artist whose paintings are rooted in fleeting encounters with light, water and landscape, hovering between observed reality and abstraction while celebrating the material possibilities and expressive freedom of paint.

Working from direct experience of the natural environment, she explores transient moments in which atmosphere, movement and light briefly converge. Her paintings offer subjective responses to sensation, perception and memory, allowing images to evolve through gesture, colour and surface.

Left image: I Felt © Katie Barons

Beginning with observation, each work remains open to transformation through the physicality of paint. Embracing process, intuition and discovery, Barons allows forms to emerge and dissolve as she responds to the unfolding image. Her paintings occupy a space between representation and abstraction, where light becomes both subject and presence.

Barons graduated with a BA in Fine Art from UCE in 1999. She currently also has work on display at the Italian Villa, Compton Acres, and her paintings are held in private collections. She is a Senior Lecturer in Painting at Arts University Bournemouth.

To find Katie on Instagram click here…

Right image: Shards and Fronds1 © Katie Barons