Q: What is your best time of day to paint?
The High Line – Barbara’s morning commute to the studio A: I have always been an early riser and a morning person, from my student pilot days when I’d be at an airport in New Jersey ready to takeoff...
View ArticleQ: Your pastel-on-sandpaper paintings are very labor intensive. Do you...
Works in progress, soft pastel on sandpaper, 58″ x 38″ A: For many years I always worked on one at a time because I have only one or two ideas - never more than that - about what I will make next....
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Boat hull * an ongoing series of quotations – mostly from artists, to artists – that offers wisdom, inspiration, and advice for the sometimes lonely road we are on. The modern way of seeing is to see...
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Utah * an ongoing series of quotations – mostly from artists, to artists – that offers wisdom, inspiration, and advice for the sometimes lonely road we are on. Balancing intuition against sensory...
View ArticleQ: Can you speak about what draws you to the Mexican and Guatemalan figures...
Shop in Panajachel, Guatemala, Photo: Donna Tang A: I search the markets and bazaars of Mexico, Guatemala, and elsewhere for folk art objects – masks, carved wooden animals, papier mache figures,...
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Studio * an ongoing series of quotations – mostly from artists, to artists – that offers wisdom, inspiration, and advice for the sometimes lonely road we are on. One evening, after one false start too...
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Mexico City * an ongoing series of quotations – mostly from artists, to artists – that offers wisdom, inspiration, and advice for the sometimes lonely road we are on. I’m struggling a lot financially,...
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Chalcatzingo (Mexico) * an ongoing series of quotations – mostly from artists, to artists – that offers wisdom, inspiration, and advice for the sometimes lonely road we are on. The times in between...
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Chalcatzingo (Mexico) * an ongoing series of quotations – mostly from artists, to artists – that offers wisdom, inspiration, and advice for the sometimes lonely road we are on. [Meredith Monk on...
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Idea for a painting * an ongoing series of quotations – mostly from artists, to artists – that offers wisdom, inspiration, and advice for the sometimes lonely road we are on. Often the public forms an...
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Balinese boy in Hindu dress * an ongoing series of quotations – mostly from artists, to artists – that offers wisdom, inspiration, and advice for the sometimes lonely road we are on. A film is a...
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