Untitled
Lino Cut Print
20" x 13 "
$110
Untitled
Mixed Media
30.5" x 22.75 "
$295
Untitled
Colored Pencil on Paper
26" x 20"
$275
| In Lois Ann Barnett's landscape paintings and drawings, style is content.
She takes scenes from books and magazines and remakes them so that, as she says,
"They don't look at all like" the source pictures.
Her hills and dales, skies and lakes, trees and rocks are strongly constructed of contoured
bands of colors applied with distinct, nearly uniform brush or pencil strokes. A hill may be built
with contoured bands of six different greens, reds or blues. She is not bound by conventional colors.
Many of he works become pure color abstracts. In contrast, the delicacy of her prints and
silk paintings of flowers and butterflies evoke the fragility of petals and wings.
Barnett's skills are remarkable in view of her severely limited vision resulting from a
degenerative eye disease. She had some art instruction in special classes at Contra Costa College.
She began painting when she came to NIAD in 1988 at age 27.
Aside from the San Francisco '49ers, Barnett's main interest is working on her art at NIAD.
"When I'm down in the dumps or if I'm angry, I can come here and take it out on the paper, "
she says smiling.
Barnett's work has been exhibited in China, Chicago, Washington, DC and California. Recently, Barnett was one of 3 featured artists at the Lighthouse for the Blind & Visually Impaired exhibition INSIGHTS 2007, at the San Francisco City Hall.
Untitled
Pencil on Paper
40" x 19.75"
$280
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