Painter, born in Czechoslovakia, who moved to England aged eight. He eventually settled in Todmorden, Yorkshire. Gained honours degree from Central School of Art. Barlow’s pictures featured situations such as playing, dreaming or floating, the characters in them being clowns and puppets based on real, life-size figures which he created. The world they inhabit is generally the stony architecture of the Pennines. He began showing with South-East London Art Group and RE in 1970 and went on to appear in numerous group exhibitions, including Hartnoll & Eyre, 1976; MAFA from 1982; Chalk Farm Gallery, 1984; and House of Commons, in a show of Calderdale Artists, 1987. Showed solo at Ginnel Gallery, Manchester, and Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, 1989.