Art

Item Description

Title & Artist: “By the Sea” - by Barbara H. Rafferty

Medium & Size: Collage; 19" x 8"

Artist Statement: Barbara gives a confident personal voice to the beauty, humor, and joy she sees daily. Her paintings include watercolor and mixed media pieces expressing her belief that suggestion can be more powerful than reality. Bold and colorful abstract paintings show Barbara's interest in exploring light and form, while she uses natural objects and ink sketching to enhance her paintings. She loves capturing people in quick, spontaneous pen strokes.
The variety of locations from which Barbara has painted is equaled by the various techniques she has used to express her love of nature and her surroundings—always with a twist of perspective, a bit of whimsy, a colorful bird, a musician bent to the bow. Her artist "self" shines through her art, often with a crooked smile, and her paintings present moments that are often delightful, touching, and transitory—to be shared between artist and viewer.

Artist Biography: Barbara gives a personal voice to the beauty, humor and joy she sees daily. Her paintings include watercolor and mixed media pieces expressing her belief that suggestion can be more powerful than reality. Bold and colorful abstract paintings show her interest in exploring light and form. She uses natural objects and ink sketching to enhance her paintings to produce some exciting work. She loves capturing people in quick, spontaneous pen strokes.

Barbara is a juried member of the Marblehead Arts Association, Salem Arts Association, LynnArts, and Swampscott Arts Association. She is the Crafts Chairperson for the Marblehead Festival of Arts and has also exhibited in the Marblehead Festival of Arts, winning ribbons in Painting the Town and Mixed Media, and was winner of the Festival's 1997 Logo Contest. Barbara has shown her work in Englewood, FL, and in Los Alamos, NM.

Value: $250

Hosting Business: “By the Sea” is on display at Eat Well Kitchen, 40 Atlantic Ave., Marblehead, MA.

Item Special Note

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