Barbara lt
About Barbara
Barbara LT is a visual artist and paints predominantly circus artists.
She spends most of her days painting movement, the character of her favourite circus artists from around the world. Finding beauty in all circus disciplines she is currently focusing on movement in the air, catching that moment that separates flying from falling.
She finds inspiration in new circus artists as well as her long term muses, loves having them around for a chat in her studio and is avidly learning the circus vocabulary.
Barbara runs away with the circus as often as she can, but always returns to her home in Kew Gardens, London.
This piece comes from exploration of ideas of time, connections and memories to circus and acrobats. The works are created using images of flowers matching them with the perfection and strength of an acrobat.
The process starts on a quiet sunny morning in the rose garden of Royal Botanical Gardens Kew in London and then browsing my collection of photos and video of acrobats. When I find something that sparks my interest and two images “fit”, I layer the images adding digital painting elements.
When the image is complete it is printed on Awagami Japanese artist paper from Shikoku island Japan.
Once the archival artist print is dry, I transfer the image and a layer of the paper onto an Italian wooden gesso board. The top layer of the paper is then gently rubbed off with my fingertips making each artwork unique. These multilayered transfers appear crumbly speaking of passing of time and memories of magic and happiness.
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