Barbara Jacobs
SEBASTOPOL, CA
Fine art, music, architectural color consulting. Enjoying being creative in Northern CA.
MessageOriginally from Minnesota, Barbara moved to Sebastopol in 2015 from Massachusetts, where she had lived and raised her family since 1968. Her formal artistic education includes work done at the Academia di Belle Arti in Florence, Italy; the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied with Adja Yunkers and David Hockney; and the University of Minnesota, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in studio art with a concentration in painting and printmaking. Aside from her personal art work, since 1986 Barbara has helped to create supportive, comfortable environments for home or work through her ongoing practice as an architectural color consultant. Barbara has been published in a variety of national professional and shelter media, both in print and online, on the subject of supportive color design and color selecting for interiors and architecture. Most recently, she is author of Windows to Imagination, a coloring book + color journal (available at Amazon.com).
Barbara’s formal artistic education includes work done at the Academia di Belle Arti in Florence, Italy; the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied with Adja Yunkers and David Hockney; and the University of Minnesota, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in studio art with a concentration in painting and printmaking.
Aside from her personal art work, since 1986 Barbara has helped to create supportive, comfortable environments for home or work through her ongoing practice as an architectural color consultant. Find out more about that service here
With her unique perspective as an artist, Barbara’s vision as a colorist and her interest in incorporating a variety of materials and textures result in mixed-media art work. Both fine art and designs range from the “painterly” to more structured, sometimes including historic or inter-cultural design references or whimsical motifs. You're invited to see more here.
Statement
Artist’s Statement: Color at the Core!
I am fascinated with exploring color and texture through non-representational subject matter expressed in a variety of media. Among them are: pastel, monotype with oil stick or soy-based ink + additional materials; digital art combined with physical media in layered processes; drawings, painting, and other items sometimes included in ‘mixed media’ and collages. My work derives from my long-time work with color in the built environment, which is three dimensional on a large scale, combined with many years’ experience doing murals, and pattern and surface design using many materials, including studying and working with historically ethnic processes of indigenous peoples. It’s interesting to me that the deep involvement I’ve had in those frameworks over the past 40+ years is coming into my personal artwork from a different angle.
Applying an understanding of our human response to color is at the core of my art and design philosophy. ‘Environmental color’—how we are affected by color and related shapes in our physical spaces, and ways of developing and communicating with color—has been prevalent in my own personal art work as well as in my professional color design work. Inspiration specifically in the art work comes from many sources but also often comes from the materials themselves, as becoming inspired by and immersed in a physical process often leads to image, form, and concept development. As the subject matter of any piece evolves—whether intentional at the outset or the result of the process—I tend to work in series’ of pieces that may even move from one medium to another as the inspiration and processes develop.
All artwork shown is original and copyright2023 Barbara Jacobs.
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