BARBARA MACFARLANE

Barbara Macfarlane (born 1958) studied at Exeter College of Art & Design. She graduated in 1980 and then spent several years travelling, mostly in India and always painting landscape. During this time she co-founded Khadi Papers, a company that produces handmade cotton rag paper in India. It is this paper she uses in her work. Outside she paints in ink and watercolour. In the studio she paints on a larger scale in oils.

Barbara's paintings come from the landscape. In her current work this has become distilled and simplified focusing on the horizon. This creates the proportions of the painting and defines the areas of colour. It is sometimes a clear division, more often obscured or blurred.

Although she paints from many locations, she always returns to paint favourite/familiar places such as Kingley Vale, East head and Cobnor - it's like touching base before moving on......a resonance in the work that many viewers find appealing.

She has recently been painting on large canvasses in both watercolour and oils.