Barbara Talbott
Laurel, MD
Curiosity is the driving force behind my art and exploring many mediums gives me the opportunity to expand and grow as a painter.
MessageBarbara Talbott has been making things all her life. She spent 20 years as a make-up artist, art director, producer and commercial photographer working with such clients as Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, Baltimore Magazine, and the Baltimore Sun. She incorporated her love of art and passion for technology into a career as a computer illustrator and graphic designer for Johns Hopkins Applied Research Labs and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center to bring Scientists and Engineers visions into life with her illustrations.
During her working career, Barbara was a resident artist at Montpelier Art Center. She explored several mediums: Printmaking, Fine Art Photography, and Encaustic Painting. She found her niche with encaustics and can incorporate her experiences with all mediums into those works. Exploration is the driving force behind her art and encaustic gives her the opportunity to expand and grow as a painter.
Barbara is now exploring the three-dimensional arts using ceramics. Moving quickly from functional work into sculpture she has a new way of expressing her gesture into the world. Ceramics has its limitations in weight and firing size. What to do? Build in lighter weight materials like steel mesh and plaster. Her next frontier!
Statement
Curiosity and exploration are the driving forces behind my work. I am constantly fascinated by the world around me – ALL of it! Growing up near the Chesapeake Bay our rich natural resources influenced my love and respect for this Earth. We have so much opportunity for joy in the sounds, smells, tastes, and atmosphere of the bay region. It fills my soul. I live it, I feel it and I paint it.
Working for NASA expanded my appreciation for our relationship to the Universe and all of its expansive beauty. The birth and death of a star and the birth and death of the smallest sea creature are part of the same life structure. As humans living in this glorious Universe, we have the opportunity to absorb all of this wonder.
I approach my work with this same sense of awe, testing mediums and working to expand my knowledge of their limits; exploring every sense of their possibilities and pushing their boundaries. What else can they do? How can I use them in a new and different way?
Note that sole copyright to the associated artworks and prints are fully retained by the artist. Any unauthorized reproduction or commercial use is in violation of U.S. copyright law. Purchase of an original painting or print DOES NOT transfer the copyrights. The artist Barbara Talbott reserves the right to create printed reproductions of her original works for sale.