My life as a woman and a painter is found in my relationship to color and light. I am curious to know these masses of color in space. This investigation leads me to feel an order in this world that is experienced within and projected into the painting; it continues to surprise me as I witness the way this works. The painting is done primarily with a painting knife in the studio, guided by intuition and visual memory or directly in the landscape, as I see how light affects color. The approach of full-spectrum seeing has awakened my perception of color-light. I am moved more and more to simply paint what I see. I see this as a path of expressive contemplation. The directness of my approach can be intimately felt in the surface of the paintings. I love this work of loving the world as a visual artist.
I have decided to move to Germany! I will be back to see my sons and my family several times a year, but look forward to settling into Freilassing. I am seeing paintings developing from the birch bark of several trees I pass on the road. They look like large etchings and I imagine them held on each side by panels of distant landscape.
Happy New Year!
Middle Street Gallery presented my drawings and paintings in a show titled "My Vision is not 20/20" during the month of June. The work in this show was inspired in part, by the forests of Germany and Virginia.
my work can be seen at The Bridge Gallery in Shepherdstown, West Virginia
Contact me at happy2bwoman@gmail.com
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Comments
Hi, Barbara,
nice to see your paintings, i like the fullness of the colors and quietness of the landscapes, also this vibrant emptiness in some of your blue skies. Love from Vienna, Sepp
Your view has deepened. Skies take the viewer upward into the mystery there. The gradients of colors are as if you are seeing the energy "chakras" of the landscape. This inner seeing and deep feeling resides in the painting. What a talent to share!
Barbara, Send me your new email address so you can be informed of updates to the D'Arista site. thanks,Lowell
Love the "Back Field" sold.
Great show at Middle Street - enjoyed looking at all your paintings.
especially liked 14-16