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Barbara Berry
Highlights by Barbara Berry was awarded Outstanding Pastel in the February 2016 BoldBrush Painting Competition
Biography
I watch and am inspired by the early morning or late afternoon light spilling across the French Creek watershed in Pennsylvania or over the foothills of the Bighorns in Wyoming. My favorite subjects are my family and the people I meet and know. Rendering the character and reflecting colors in a loved one's face gives me great joy.
"Barbara's paintings convey mood and emotion, and the emotion spills generously off the canvas and into the viewers' mind and heart and soul. Each of her paintings is a world to be entered and explored, like a song. The notes and voice and rhythm are clarion calls to attention: look! See. Feel." -Emily Brewton Schilling, writer/editor/researcher
Education -coursework with Signature Members of the Pastel Society of America Teresa DeSeve and Anne Graham, oil painter Nathan Durnin, oil painter Jon Redmond, oil painter Karen Fogarty, and watercolorist Lauren Daddona.
Workshops with Jon Redmond, Barbara Courtney Jaenicke, Mike Beeman, Tony Allain, Stan Sperlak, Charlie Hunter, Valerie Craig, Kenn Backhaus, David Shevlino, Ellen Cooper, and Randall Sexton.
Barbara is a member of The Pastel Society of America, the Maryland Pastel Society, the Pastel Society of the West Coast, the Philadelphia Watercolor Society, the International Association of Pastel Societies, and the Portrait Society of America.
Awards:
*the painting "highlights" (aka "light touch") won the Outstanding Pastel award in the February 2016 BoldBrush Painting Competition (Laurie Kersey, juror)
*the painting "my rose" was awarded Best in Show at the Wayne Art Center Members juried Exhibition 2015 (Neil Di Sabato, juror). This exhibit ran October 25th to November 21st in Wayne, PA.
