Barbara Churchley
🎨 An Exhibition of Paintings by Barbara Churchley
🌿 Exhibition Sponsor
Patricia Powell
📅 Key Dates & Reception Info
Exhibit Dates: –
Opening Reception: Friday, , –
🖌️ About the Exhibition
Barbara Churchley’s work resists categorization. Her free and experimental personality drives her to explore a variety of media and styles. While celebrated for her botanical watercolor illustration, she is perhaps best known for her oil and pastel landscapes.
Her palette knife oils have energy and vibrancy without ever becoming overworked. Her use of light and shadow gives her compositions a sense of life, while her handling of paint is both masterful and nuanced—at once delicate and smooth.
Churchley states, “Creating a work of art is, for me, an act of adventure, immersion into the unknown, a celebration at times, and a challenge always. It is fulfilling as only an act of creation can be. I throw off the bowlines and set sail with canvas, color, brush, and palette knife to see where my journey will take me.”
“When painting, I face the challenge of capturing it so that both you and I recognize it when we look at the artwork. Celebration occurs when that same thread that exists in you and me and the world around us is caught somewhere in that canvas covered with brushstrokes of color.”
Churchley is a Master Signature Member of the Pastel Society of Colorado and a Signature Member of Plein Air Artists of Colorado, Plein Air Painters of New Mexico, and International Plein Air Painters. She is also a Signature Member of the prestigious American Impressionist Society.