His works are highly appreciated by the public and critics, known not only in Spain, but also in Germany and Italy where they are distributed by 1995. After a long apprenticeship in which he confronted himself with the major currents of contemporary art (from the impressionists to Cézanne, from Masson to abstract art), Barnils has arrived at a highly personal synthesis of a high intellectual level, between the colors and suggestions of the Catalan tradition and a primordial painting full of penetrating signs and soft visions.
The initial love for the landscape has left the descriptive ways of representation to become pure spatial synthesis through a subtle and incisive stroke. Drawing dialogues with painting, geometry is combined with the layers of matter, and the pictures, however abstract they are linked to the becoming of life and express the search for joy and beauty. Barnils conceives his works as an accomplished reflective matter of the human condition.