Barry Cottrell is an artist, researcher, writer and visionary. Born in Bristol, England in 1953, he studied psychology and philosophy at Oxford University and art at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. As an artist-printmaker, he works mainly with a burin on copper, wood or lino to produce 'poetry of the driven line.' As a researcher and writer he has explored and written about human consciousness and the recovery of primal mind.