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Barbara Kelley
was born in Anchorage, Alaska, and then lived in the equally scenic
states of Washington, Ohio, New Mexico, and California. These
environments provided her with visual inspiration which is expressed
in her paintings, drawings, monotypes and monoprints. She applies
the building blocks of composition, form, color and texture to her
initial interpretation (visual reading) of a scene. As the work
evolves the final outcome, may range from abstract to realism, but
always the artists' interpretation. Barbara is also a skilled
painter, producing oil and acrylic paintings at her second residence
and art studio at Sea Ranch.
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Barbara is an active
member of the Sonoma County community of printmakers at
The Print Studio, and is a member of the California
Society of Printmakers, the Berkeley Arts Center
Association, and the National Museum of Women in the
Arts. She is currently the president of
the North Coast Artists' Guild, which represents artists
from the coastal areas of Jenner, in Sonoma County,
through the Little River area in Mendocino, California.
She creates original monotypes by
applying printmakers' inks on a zinc or Plexiglas plate,
using brayers or brushes. She designs the picture with
various tools or paints a picture with brushes, or
combines the two techniques. She then moves the plate
onto a printing bed of a hand-cranked printing press,
places a dampened sheet of heavyweight paper over the
plate, cranks the plate through the press, transferring
the image from the plate onto the paper - creating an
original, one-of a kind print.
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Barbara Kelley
PO Box 422
Gualala, CA 95445
(707) 785-9429
sonomawine@earthlink.net
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