16.05.15 |
Q: Would you talk about how the Judas figures you depict in your pastel paintings function in Mexico? |
15.04.15 |
Pearls from artists* # 139 |
28.02.15 |
Q: You often speak about the Mexican and Guatemalan figures in your paintings as serving a function analogous to actors in a repertory company. In other words, a particular figure plays a different role each time it appears in one of your pastel paintings. Would you choose a figure and show how you have painted it through the years? |
14.02.15 |
Q: What’s on the easel today? |
21.06.14 |
Q: Would you speak about your first trip to Mexico? |
1.03.14 |
Q: I just got home from my first painting experience… three hours and I am exhausted! Yet you, Barbara, build up as many as 30 layers of pastel, concentrate on such intricate detail, and work on a single painting for months. How do you do it? |
14.12.13 |
Q: Can you speak about what draws you to the Mexican and Guatemalan figures that you collect? |
5.10.13 |
Q: At the end of last Saturday’s (September 28th) post you mentioned something called, “Esala Perahera.” What is that? |
4.05.13 |
Q: To be a professional visual artist is to have two full-time jobs because an artist must continually balance the creative and the business sides of things. How do you manage to be so productive? |
3.04.13 |
Pearls from artists* # 34 |
2.03.13 |
Q: What first intrigued you about Mexico? |