About the Artist

Kent Barton - Painter, Print Maker, Photographer, Pastel Artist.

My artworks have decorated homes, offices, foyers, meeting/waiting rooms, resorts, a hospital, and one time, a foreign Embassy. My artworks have been sent to expats in many countries around the world. Similarly, foreign visitors have taken pieces home. My artwork has appeared in newspapers and magazines, and on the Brisbane Lord Mayor's Christmas cards. 

Personal story

Thanks for reading. So, I was born 1961, grew up and lived most of my life in Gaythorne, Mitchelton, and Paddington in northside Brisbane. I also spent much time on the Sunshine Coast as a mad keen surfer, including living and working there for several years.

 When I completed school, I was blessed to have had three years at the Queensland College of Art in Seven Hills, Brisbane, to achieve a Diploma of Visual Communications in 1981. I then worked as a graphic artist for the printing and advertising industries, including my first job at a startup newspaper in Nambour. Eventually, in 1992, I decided to take the financial risk, and began working as a professional artist, producing and selling my artworks. Initially, I had a contract with an Ashgrove Real Estate Agency, to provide black and white drawings of their listings. This gave me great practice at drawing wonderful old houses in the vicinity. I felt a connection with these images, as I had always lived in houses of that era. I began working with these images to produce serigraphs, pastel drawings and paintings to sell, and have continued to do so.

In 2010, we left Brisbane for the country and created a small hotel and a tourist retail shop in coastal Agnes Water. A beautiful, largely untouched coastal haven, with surf beaches, and all the wonderful wildlife. We built and operated these businesses for 15 years, and have now sold up and moved back to Brisbane. 

With such inspiration from the city, country and coast, I have always been producing art, and have been quite busy, and loving it. Stay tuned on Facebook and Instagram, (that means - follow my pages ... Kent Barton Artist).

A fun fact, my great grandfather George Barton, was the older brother of Sir Edmund Barton .. Australia's first Prime Minister. When George lectured Law at Sydney University, Edmund was one of his students.


above .. 1990s, this is me making the original silkscreen printed edition of 'backstreet shuffle'