S.L.Cluster #10 image size 8"x12" on 10"x15" Rives BFK $400.00

I primarily work in painting and monotype from still life. For me, the interaction with my subject offers opportunities to forge connections between myself, the thing seen, and the response. Some of the works are painted straightaway while others are sustained over an extended period. My selection of colors, marks, and touch represent the character and dynamic of the subject as I feel it. Initially my tones create a framework which evolve into color that develops light and space. I hope to discover a hidden order, a rhythm, a surprise by selecting the appropriate elements that accords my work an alive, pictorial whole that is parallel to nature. In my specific response I try to realize the image and conclude a poetic order.

William D. Barnes

S.L. Cluster #12 image size 8"x12" on 10"x15" Rives BFK $ 400.00

William D. Barnes was born in Chicago, raised in Iowa, received his B.F.A. from Drake University and his M.F.A. from the University of Arizona. His paintings and monotypes have been exhibited in over 150 national, juried and invitational exhibitions throughout the country. Recent exhibitions include a solo show at College of Southern Maryland and group shows at Denise Bibro and Kouros Galleries in New York City, Rittenhouse Fine Arts in Philadelphia, and Pearl Gallery in Hartford. Works have been acquired by public collections in New York, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Florida, and Alabama. He is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including an N.E.A. and a residency at La Cite’ Internationale des Paris. In New York he is affiliated with the Bowery Gallery, where he has had three one-person exhibitions, and since 1997 he has been a member of Zeuxis, an association of still life painters based in New York. He is a Professor of Art and Art History at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, where he has taught since 1975.