BARBARA FONTAINE-WHITE
Artist Statement
Understanding the land is a physical experience. As an artist, I connect to the land through direct contact on hikes and walks in the southwest and other wilderness areas. My paintings start with observed reality and are then synthesized through composition, memory and imagination. From my perspective, landscape viewed as a metaphor for the human condition explores the relationship of humankind to the earth and recognizes a universal need for interaction with the natural world.
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Background & Bio
Born in Troy, New York in the Hudson River Valley, Barbara Fontaine-White views the landscape as a physical experience that forges a relationship with herself, the viewer, and the painting she creates. In 2019, she received a faculty development grant to develop a new body of work using the landscape as a subject. Her current work represents her observations.
Fontaine-White taught painting and drawing at the university level for over thirty years. She retired in the spring of 2022 as a full professor from the University of Mary-Hardin Baylor and now works as a full-time artist. Her paintings start with observed reality and the work stresses materiality incorporating cold wax medium, paint sticks, pastels and oil paint.
