Barry Mitchell

1953. born in Glasgow, Scotland, brought up in pleasant
Edinburgh suburb - educated in
rough school (on the wrong side of tracks) - 1971 - achieved dream of going to art school - Duncan of Jordanstone School of Art (Dundee) - during
school holidays worked in architecture office of Marcel Brauer
assc.(Paris) - 1976 - completed five year
course in sculpture - best part was five years of academic life drawing. - 1976
- rented studio
in Art Council owned Forebank
Studios (Dundee) -
exhibited paintings in Scottish universities with group of four art school
painter friends. -1977 - Put out thumb on road and hitched
to Paris - had many good friends & contacts in Paris from past travels, made many more - worked first year
on vineyard in Vaucluse, planting,
treating, picking, bottling, packing & delivering.

1978
- moved up to
Paris to paint - exhibited in Salon Jeune Peinture - Salon Figuration Critique  -1980 - prospected by Galerie Philippe
Frégnac (rue Jacob, Paris), resulting in four consecutive
one-man shows. - then invited to Salon
de Montrouge - illustrated for women's magazines - Biba, Marie-Claire, Cosmopolitan, Vogue - Illustrated
for European advertising with agent Ian Fleming Assc.(London) - 1982 - Moved to Brussels - Airbrush
illustrator for advertising - worked in Gallerie Totem.

1986
- Moved back to
Paris.-1990 - moved to small country village. - 1993
- Set up company
Labayle & Mitchell with wife  Sophie Labayle,
- “furniture and
objects for gardens and their houses"
- designing,
building prototypes (metal), - selling internationally, Paris, London,
New-York, Montreal, Singapore,
Tokyo - articles on
house & company in design magazines, Maison Marie-Claire, Elle Deco, House&Gardens,,,,,,       
  

1999
- In-house “Artist" with Dragon Rouge Packaging bringing
mixed media painting techniques to creative team - 2002 - Started work as English language
coach to young professionals, under contract to - CCI Villepinte, Promeo Formation, Domitel, Adomlingua. -2016
- Set up
consultant service Mitchell English Services, coaching, translating
& interpreting, Gained C.P.F.
certification -  Lectured  English & Modern Art history at the Ecole  Francoise Conte (Fashion)- Exhibited sculpture with Compass
Gallery/Gerber Fine Arts (Glasgow) -
Worked with UTOPIA56 helping refugees in Calais and
Paris.

Now!!! - Language coaching with direct
clients in Paris & Dakar - working on new paintings & sculptures - exhibiting with Gallery Art
Nou Mil·lenni (Barcelona) at art fair Hartexpo 2019 (Barcelona) - selected for the Florence Biennale 2019 - Visiting lecturer in
"Cultural English" with Atelier Chardon Savard (Fashion/Paris) and LISAA (Animation & Video Game/Paris).