Abstract painting is the exploration of emotions such as feeling and intuition. Being in the moment, speaking visually. The syntax is colour, line, texture, movement, space, shape, form as in the automatic dialogue of artist and material. The hand, the brush, the use of tools at hand, not precious, but useful.
Each work is surface and, material. Content is influenced by intuition, knowledge, and process. Fragments of today's world, the mind's eye, felt realities, layers upon layers, become the painting. Adding, subtracting and reworking are part of constructing the painting. The artist and the viewer see the work in different interpretations.
Moments, and experiences, a visual musical dub, a remembered sound, line of a song or poem, walking on a path, sounds of nature, water, the sea, the imagined and the real; subliminally inform the paint marks.
Barbara comes from a background of practicing and teaching art for many years.
Barbara was educated in British Columbia in the school system and at the University level. Upon moving to Nova Scotia, further fine arts studies at the university and community level have added to her passion for visual arts.
