Barbara Patricia Eaves-Brown, Artist’s Statement
My main concern is process. The act of making art is far more important to me than the finished product.- I usually start a painting with some form of visual reference, an object, place or figure.
- However the play of imagination and expression are allowed to take over as I work.
- I paint in acrylic on canvas. Colour and surface are also concerns. Scale can range from a
- few square inches, like some of the art supplies to huge multiple panel works that
- measure in feet, like the landscapes.
Some of my paintings are exuberant and joyful like many of the flowers, but other work can have- sinister overtones. In some of the art supplies paint tubes may come to resemble fallen bodies,
- while the art tools begin to look like instruments of torture. Whole, almost narrative,
- situations came out of the contemplation of the seashells. Too, the large landscapes are as
- much states of mind as scenes, experiences of travels not necessarily recollected in
- tranquility. I am interested in the inherent tendency of inanimate things to
- take on a life of their own. The uncanny quality of artificial life, on the
- boundary between the real and not real, has always attracted me.
- This is evident in the doll, dress and puppet paintings.
ART SUPPLIES 2001-2002 acrylic on canvas
- Art Brushes One
- 12" x 24"
Art Supplies One 18" x 14" - Art Brushes Two
- 12" x 24"
Art Supplies Two 16" x 16" 
Art Supplies Five 20" x 16" Art Tools One 10" x 10"
Art Supplies Three 10" x 14" - Art Supplies Four
- 20" x 16"
Art Supplies Six 16" x 16" Art Tools Two 10" x 12" Art Tools Three 10" x 10"
- 130 Dublin Street, North, Guelph, Ontario N1H 4N4
- (519) 837-3484
pateaves@uoguelph.ca
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