Barbara Payne – portfolio

Contact the artist

07899 786271
b.payne202@btinternet.com

Exhibition information

Come and visit our exhibition in a beautiful old barn at Appleton (open 10-5 every day, May 2-10th). We are showing paintings, textile art, mixed media, ceramics, and we also have cards for sale and tea and home made cake on offer!

 

 

 

 

Artist information

 

It’s colour that does it for me, landscape and colour, though I enjoy still life too and can paint people when the occasion demands. I like bleak landscapes: moorland, islands, standing stones, ruined mines.

Acrylic is such a lot of fun; you can put it on with a roller, a scraper, a pallete knife, a stick, scratch it with the end of paintbrush, spray it with your thumb and an old toothbrush. You can put it on thick, or in thin washes like watercolour, mask out bits with tape, print lines with an old credit card, scribble with a thin rigger, paint leaves and print them onto the surface …

I also like lino cutting, writing poems, mending sheds!

 

The photo shows me mending a decorated pillar in a friend’s house in Penzance, made by an artist in the 1970s.