by Barbara Downs | Jun 16, 2013
I now have these twelve of large-scale paintings, all completed over the last year. They all are acrylic/mixed-media on unstretched canvas, approximately 6’x9′. Falling and Fallen, acrylic/mixed-media on unstretched canvas (hung directly on wall with...
by Barbara Downs | May 17, 2013
I have many thoughts about my current series of large-scale paintings, but I’m going to limit this post to the topic of mark-making as it relates to scale. I started thinking about this perhaps a year ago, while I was working with small encaustics but...
by Barbara Downs | May 13, 2013
I love to photograph my photographer, r.r. jones, at work. He came to my studio last week to shoot a few new large paintings, and at the same time my neighbor Jamie Abbott borrowed my wall to photograph one of his sculptures. Here are Ron and Jamie with Jamie’s...
by Barbara Downs | Mar 24, 2013
Here’s what I’m up to in the studio right now: big paintings, more of which can be seen here. This new one, still in progress, is acrylic and chalk on unstretched canvas, and is approximately 9’x6′. The ladder in the photo shows the scale,...
by Barbara Downs | Dec 20, 2012
More images from my encaustic series about children. I explained what I’m doing in my last post, “in memory”. To recap, I am thinking both of children’s fragility and resilience, their resolve and vulnerability. I think of the piece on the...
by Barbara Downs | Dec 18, 2012
In the wake of the Newtown school shootings last Friday, I was at a loss for ideas as I walked into my studio Monday morning. I have a child, and the sheer horror of what happened is unfathomable, unbearable, unimaginable. I’ve long considered using children as...
