Hugh John BARRETT (1935 – 2005) – Huile sur panneau signée mesurant 8×10 pouces (1975)
Montreal born Hugh John Barrett was a painter, sculptor, graphic designer, illustrator, and educator.
He enrolled at the École du meuble de Montréal, and studied successively at the École du Musée des beaux-arts and the École des beaux-arts de Montréal, and later at The Montréal School of Art and Design with Arthur Lismer and Goodridge Roberts.
He studied engraving with Janine Leroux-Guillaume and observational drawing at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
Barrett, a dedicated educator, graduated with a teaching certificate in pedagogy and artistic methodology from the École des beaux-arts de Montréal.
He initally painted and taught in the Montreal area, but later settled in the Saguenay where he taught at the Quebec School of Fine Arts.
A lifelong activist for the arts, Barrett participated in the creations of several socio-cultural movements, organizing visual arts classes in Chicoutimi and Arvida and founding a free workshop and an expression workshop for children.
He returned to the Montreal area to teach and establishing a creative workshop at the Laurentides Hospital. He was instrumental in the visual arts classes at Jean de Brébeuf College in Montreal and a teaching advisor for the McGill Art Society’s free visual arts workshop Barret also gave painting technique courses at the Cégep du Vieux Montréal.
Always a gifted painter Barrett eventually devoted himself solely to his artistic career.
His exceptional works are much sought after and found in private, corporate and public collections including the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Modern Art Paris.
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