NEW WORK BY BARBARA ESMARK
Welcome to the digital gallery of new works - started and completed after I closed the gallery’s physical space in July. These selected pieces reflect my continuing interest in the figure as a form, but also as a vessel of memory. While I draw from live models regularly, the paintings are imagined, not painted from life. These are paintings I needed to do, based on versions of personal experience and observation — having fully imagined them and been unable to proceed further without getting them onto the canvas. At that point, the impetus fades and the work takes on a life of its own.
By the Pond 12 x 16 oil on canvas
Waiting 20 x 12 oil on canvas
“Bougainvillea” (below) is my delayed response to my mother’s asking me to do a painting
of flowers for her. I could never seem to find a way to approach that subject,
until I lived in California and was overwhelmed by raging, ubiquitous, masses of
bougainvillea. I did not have the time to consider them until this year, from
sketches I had done in 2001. It was only after I closed the gallery that I had
the necessary time to release these wild, delicate blooms from my memory.
Bougainvillea 12 x 12 Oil on Canvas
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Barbara Esmark My Girl Encaustic and Oil Paint 9″ x 7 ”
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