He devoted his creativity to establishing links between art and water, and he promoted cultural events that highlight the consequences of human intervention on the environment such as environmental pollution and global warming.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he was involved with the group Zeta International promoters of the New Visuality or Poesia Visiva with Carlo Marcello Conti, Lamberto Pignotti, Adriano Spatola, Gerard Jaschke, Eugenio Miccini, Luciana Arbizzani, T. Blittersdorf, Graziella Borghesi, and Erio Sughi among many others.
As told by French writer Gérard-Georges Lemaire:[2] The artwork of Bartus Bartolomes transpires in an association of heart and mind that fuels his passion for art in all of its expressions.
These interior reflections of the artist generate a dynamic that leads him to expand his energetic connections with a geographical territory combining the joyful freedom of his feelings with the ample variety of intellectual motivations that when joined in his process, never jeopardize the wholeness of his approach."
One of the main motivational targets implicit in his graphic creations has been to show, project, or portray his own reflections of what it means to survive as an artist who creates and produces in a cultural environment where civilization, the destruction of natural resources and contamination go hand in hand on a day by day basis, unstoppable, everyday.Carlo Marcello Conti, art critic, writes:[3] The artist juxtaposes exotic influences from as far as Africa, Asia, Europe, South and North America to articulate his discovery of asymmetrically iconography art contrasts between East and West, expanding metaphoric visions, transcending barriers of time in the plastics imagery and converging into a new archaeology of meta-signs and poetry.Bartus Bartolomes has participated in numerous exhibitions: [4] [16]