GOODBYE TO LONDON....

It had to happen. I have moved from London. I am now in Brighton - 'London's slutty sister' as someone has described the town. It is a lively, energetic place with interesting stuff happening.



I have taken to Instagram as barryejsmithartist and Twitter as @barryejsmithart

Noir in London

Noir in London

I have had great pleasure assembling all the work I've done around the theme of noir - etchings of moody dames & cigarette smoke; linocuts of stills of imaginary black and white movies, illustration to detective stories and black and white photographs of cheap neighbourhoods. What happens next....

You can see it all at http://www.barrysmithwork.co.uk/noir

New Prints

The new prints are now available. Click on the link below and it will take you to an online gallery where you can preview the pictures.

new BEJ Smith prints from Art Marketing

Vintage High Street: a new book of old London shops

I finally got around to having another look at some of my old drawings of shops, pubs and cafés in London and have collected them together in a book which I hope will be volume i .

You can preview part of the book below and also, if you choose, you can buy it in either soft cover or ebook format.

Vintage High Street by B.E.J.Smith |

Relics and holy icons for our new age - happy new year

Vintage Xmas

It's Xmas! This is how I saw it a long time ago.

News from Hackney

Well, it's not news now. Got off the train at Hackney Central to find my way blocked by a row of HMs finest, telling me I couldn't go down into Mare Street because of a little local disturbance. I found out about it all by following the crowd and their mobes inspecting the riot scene.  I caught up with it all (as we all did) later.

Here is an illustration to a J G Ballard short story with a few new tags.