Contemporary Abstract Artist – www.barbaramosher.com & www.art-in-living.com
I have missed having my studio open for visitors and participating and visiting art shows. This past year has been quite an adjustment and I sometimes feel like Punxsutawney Phil peeking my head above the ground wondering if it is safe to come out. I am writing this as the sun is shining outside [...]
I felt the need to paint even larger. I set out to buy 72" x 72" canvases.
It was an eventful 16 days...filled with rainy weather and traffic. My dear husband and Chevy (the studio assistant dachshund) took off from the Pacific Northwest two days before the Seattle Snowmageddon. It was a 1200 mile trek to Palm Springs and San Diego, in the name of Art (of course) and family. Winter is [...]
Being an artist is not only creating art, but marketing, packing, shipping, and tending to social media, among many other responsibilities. Today was photo shoot day. A wonderful photographer, Greg Roebuck, who has done some fantastic photos for Snowboarding Magazine, spent the better part of an afternoon with me and my paintings. I haven't seen [...]
I often struggle with the expectations that an artist have a body of work that is recognizably their "signature" style. Part of what I love about being an artist is the creativity to be unique and let myself explore and be free. The art world does not always favor this course of creativity...at least in [...]
I paint large canvases and I do not have a separate studio, so my studio is my garage. Since I live in the Pacific Northwest, on an island, many months of the year my "studio" gets too cold to really be able to paint. In the past I have succumbed to doing smaller works in [...]
...And how we see Contemporary Abstract Art BARBARA MOSHER “ Read Between the Lines”2017 Around the kitchen table or the neighborhood bar, a long-standing debate is often the subject of disagreement. What is the best pickle? The classic dill, now that alone can conjure up some arguments. Are we talking about a Vlasic [...]
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