Barbra Edwards Works on Paper

Barbra Edwards - Works on Paper

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biography

Barbra Edwards is a visual artist who currently works in the Gulf Islands, BC. She studied photographic arts at Dawson College in Montreal, followed by design and still photography at Ryerson University in Toronto. Intensive studies with Harold Klunder and Peter Kolisnyk followed, along with selected workshops in the U.S. and Canada.

The natural environment has long been a source of inspiration, with the plant and animal world having a major influence on her paintings. Recently her work has evolved to include more of her loose gestural marks integrated with forms that intertwine with a rhythmic layering of feeling. Hers is tender yet sensuous story telling, with brushstrokes that share with the viewer how the painting was made.

where to see or read more

shows: Barbra is now represented in Edmonton by the Bugera Matheson Gallery.
Barbra is represented in Victoria, BC, by Winchester Galleries.

web: www.barbraedwards.com Barbra Edwards' website
www.facebook.com/barbra.edwards.12 to view Barbra's art facebook page
www.barbraedwards.com/blog to read Barbra's studio blog
www.johncameron.ca provides photography services to the artist

press: Click here to see Barbra's on-line catalogue of a recent exhibition.

documents: Below are documents shared by the artist for further reading

cv_barbraedwards_july_2015.pdf
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contact the artist

address: Pender Island, BC, Canada
email: info@barbraedwards.com

artist statement

My watercolours don’t get out much. They mostly hang around the studio while I work on larger paintings.

These paintings play an important roll in my daily studio practice, much of it on a subconscious level. They are a direct yet meditative way to play out on paper new ideas and directions I’m considering.

Each watercolour represents moments and experiences of the day and also reflect this dramatic West Coast I’m passionate about.
I work with a wash of gouache or watercolour along with back and forth drawing or scratching with other materials like ink and wax. On occasion a collage piece finds it’s way onto a painting.

Watercolour is unforgiving, once you lay pigment down, you have to leave it and continue on. The act of drawing with watercolour is similar to working with graphite; the connection between thought and line is immediate. There is an intimacy of creating that gets captured in the work.

People observe they have a familiar, visceral response to this kind of mark making. It’s a pleasure to discuss the paintings with someone who may continue on with their own story-telling while they are drawn into the experience of the work.

Barbra Edwards - painter

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