Barbara

img_8547Barb’s current works explore movement with the sureness of touch achieved over a lifetime, but with a new intensity. Since 2012, her practice is to meditate until no preconceived forms remain in her mind and only then touch the canvas. Paintings happen very fast, and it’s not possible to go back and fix anything. Action paintings? Abstract expressionism? These are labels. The body’s history of dance, its sheer kinesthetic knowledge, is concentrated in the movement of one hand. Gestures layer over each other, sometimes achieving tremendous depth.