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By Donna LaPre
Color to me is as important as fqod, or fresh air. It is an integral component to the pleasure I find in the natural world. So when I see the work of an artist who] has a love for color and the skilly to visually speak color’s language, I am truly amazed.
Barbara Heile Sherwood is a local artist whose increasing fluepcy with the language of irolo^ creates an amazing experience for any viewer. She paints rich, juicy still life, landscape and figures in landscape, on location or from memory. Whether in oil, gouache or watercolor, they all share the commonality of an artist’s visipn and desire to express color and light as inseparable from the paint the art is made from.
If you walk into the Ballard Gallery, where Barbara’s first solo show is hanging, you will feel drenched in color. It’s a similar! sensation to walking through my summer garden, whore I can feel color and light being absorbed through the cells of my skin.
Late Afternoon Sun on Backhill, a 24”x24” oil on canvas, is a violet-purple mountain formed of paint which rises above trees appearing to wave in the wind. A thick tangle of sap green, chartreuse, orange and burgundy paint holding the foreground is convincing as
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