Barbara Bemis Adams
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    • Spring 2018 Biddeford Pool
    • 2018 Winter Pastels: Water Lilies Gone Wild
    • Spring-Summer-Fall: 2017
    • Winter-Spring 2017 oil, pastel, acrylic, uke top
    • Driven to Abstraction, 2016
    • Spring 2015 to Winter 2016
    • Fall 2014 and Winter 2014-2015
    • Summer: 2014
    • Winter 2013-2014: Tree Reflections
    • Pastels: Landscape
    • Pastels: Figure and Still Life
    • Oil, Acrylic, Monotype, Drawings, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Ukulele tops
    • Abstracts (all media)
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About Barbara

I am happily anticipating a move to north-central Maine, looking forward to spending more time in a place I've come to love.

​And painting will continue:
Color, pattern and light are endlessly interesting to me.  My goal is to work at pushing pieces into the abstract as I paint more and more from memory and imagination, attempting to capture light and mood. I try to keep my work strong and fresh.

Resumes: Early Journey & Emerging...

About My Art...

Picture
Wed. Session O'Shea's Old Inn, Dennis MA (sold)
Every season, every day and hour holds a new view:

Winter: moon shadows and windowpane ice along the shore, blowing snow across a lake, hemlock branches heavy with new snow.
Spring: fresh breezes, ice breaking up, frogs courting.
Summer: salmon sunrise, flaming sunset, waterbugs whirling, eaglets learning to fish.
 Fall:  Reflected in the lake, a double image of flame, leaf patterns floating in a pool or lining a path.  


 I have never been much of a “detail” or realistic painter.  I try to use color relationships to say what I’m thinking, to express a mood. I’ve liked pushing a piece with texture and brush movement.  But the palette knife is still a tool of importance to me.

​Painters I’ve been privileged know and learn from:  Most memorably, Phil Malicoat, one of the venerable Provincetown painters.  Pia MacKenzie, with her playful approach to art making, (monotype printmaking). 
I continuously look at art.  I remember the first time I saw John Singer Sargent’s work, and VanGough, Winslow Homer, Maxfield Parrish.  I love the woodcuts of Mary Azarian. Kathe Kollwitz’s etchings.  

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