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WELCOME TO WATERCOLORS MY WAY!
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The Artist with Liberty #82: "The Price of Liberty"
Current and Upcoming Shows "The 2011 Statewide Painting Competition & Exhibition"
The Triton Museum of Art
December
10-February 12, 2012
1505 Warburton Avenue
Santa Clara, CA 95050
(408) 247-3754, www.tritonmuseum.org
Open daily except Monday
Artist Reception, Dec. 9, 7-9pm North
Valley Art League
28th Annual National Juried Show
LIBERTY #30:"Lost Liberties" given
an Award of
Excellence!
January 24-February 25, 2012
NVAL Carter House Gallery
48 Quartz Hill Road
Redding, CA
www.nval.org "Red or Read"
SCVWS Member Show
February 2-28, 2012
Los Altos Library
13 South San Antonio Road, Los Altos, CA 94022
#(650) 948-7683
Open Mon-Thurs., 10am-9pm,
Fri-Sat. 10am-6pm
and Sun. 12N-6pm
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Laurie Barna is a native northern Californian, who currently resides in the Almaden area of San Jose. As
a child, she loved to draw and color as a hobby and later, took several art classes in college while pursuing a
professional nursing degree. Her first experience with watercolor came in the fall of 1999, when she took a Los Gatos/Saratoga
Adult Recreation class. It was love at first brushstroke!
In her second student show in the spring of 2001, her
painting of the Arc de Triomphe was selected by her peers as “Best of Show.” Her paintings have garnered
her “Artist of the Month” awards by her Los Gatos Art Association peers and her work has been juried into both
LGAA and Santa Clara Valley Watercolor Society member juried shows. “I love the challenge of painting with such
a versatile yet exacting medium and creating that certain ‘glow’ using color and value.”
In 2006,
she took the challenge of watercolor painting "Beyond the Obvious" and began painting the Statue of Liberty as a
still life and in series. She discovered that she is a content painter, and this series has given her an artistic voice
to communicate her strong feelings about Lady Liberty and America. She engages the viewer in a uniquely American dialogue
about the nature and experience of liberty, asking him or her to think...to question...and to remember. There is
a strong sense of both personal and national journey in her series, from Liberty #1: "The Beginning" (2006) to Liberty #101:
"Passing the Torch" (2009). The series has been featured in five solo shows, Liberty #82: "The Price of
Liberty" (2009) was juried into a museum's statewide painting competition and Liberty #28: "Shattered Lives, Shattered
Liberty" and Liberty #30: "Lost Liberties" (both from 2007) were accepted into national juried shows.
The Liberty Series is now complete at 30 paintings, and she is confident in her ability to take any idea and "run
with it." "Popular Art is a celebration of the Image. Great Art is the celebration of an Idea." (Preston
Metcalf, Chief Curator of the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara) This is her Idea--the Liberty Series. Her
desire is to make this series available for public viewing as much as possible and she continues to search for appropriate
venues.
Since 2010, she has focused
on painting portraits and figures (garnering a Second Place award at the San Mateo County Fair) and painting en plein aire
with her fellow artists. In 2011, she began painting an Angel Series, which has allowed her to explore spiritual content
as well as trying new ideas and techniques in designing her paintings. "My goal is to use the gifts God has given
me to change the world, one painting and one viewer at a time, and in the process, to grow as an artist and give Him the glory."
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