by Barbara Downs | May 15, 2015
I am excited to be a part of this beautiful exhibition. We have a reception this Sunday, May 17, from 4:30-6:30. Please join us!
by Barbara Downs | May 6, 2015
I’m back in Iceland, taking a lot of photos for later use in the studio, as inspiration for drawings and paintings. The horizon line is not as prominent in this one as in some of the other photos I’ve taken (and in all of the drawings), but I like that...
by Barbara Downs | Mar 31, 2015
Please come to the reception this Friday if you can: A Figurative Affair 2015, Blitzer Gallery on the west side of Santa Cruz…
by Barbara Downs | Mar 11, 2015
Another Iceland drawing (see this post for the first two). This one, though done with drawing materials, feels like a painting to me. As is usually the case, the scale of these drawings seems important to me, so here is the obligatory studio shot with my yellow...
by Barbara Downs | Jan 11, 2015
I don’t normally engage in magical thinking, but I do believe in the power of art. I needed a talisman, for personal reasons, so I edited my two recent large landscape drawings to add doors to the buildings. I felt that I need an entrance to that stark world....
