: August 8, 2009 through September 5, 2009 :
Painting is, I believe one of the many creative forms of communication not to be confused with words. Words can express feelings and needs response, creating with a canvas of medium edits our body language and gives the viewer a in to the work with no visual response, this is a personal, private line of communication for the viewer only.
Success depends on several things, such as: impact of the message, the aesthetic quality of execution, the skill and the spirit with which the materials are manipulated and formed and some ingredient transmitted from the artist that will make the work take on a life of its own.
Many of my work evolve around human struggles. The people involved I will with regret treat them anonymously because they are just people and are hidden even from the impact of that which is around their time and age…it is not that they don’t want to see and experience their life it is the social impact an ageless and probably endless struggle between masculinity and femininity.
I have lived in the most interesting time of the 20th Century and have the guts to record it. I have paid the price of admission and will until the end of my life record what was, what wasn’t and what could have been. Maybe just maybe there will be another who will do the same in their creative form of communication.
“Give Communication a Chance”Janice Barnhart works in a variety of media, including: oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastels, clay and steel. She holds University degrees in Studio Art, an A.A. in Arts & Sciences, and a Degree in Welding Technology. She was certified welder on the Seafox Project for the Navy Seals, from 1979-1986.
Her work is strongly Expressionistic, and she is both influenced and inspired by the works of Impressionist Pissarro and the feeling of Turner, from whom she adopts, "Using line and no line. Forcing the viewer to look where you want them to look," says Barnhart. "I like my work to have luminosity. Glazes deepen the value of color. I also use scumblings, a light rubbing with rags, in the same manner which I apply paint, to add sparkle and texture."
Janice’s style embraces the soft-edged manner of the French Impressionists, accomplished with thick applications dragged on, quickly covering the canvas. She often employs soft blues, pinks and violets, for an atmospheric effect that blurs the line and definition of edges. She sometimes begins with the background painted and dried, adding a brush drawing to that surface, allowing some color to bleed through. She does not submit to the burden of conformity.
Her work is never a safe haven, but is always a point of departure, challenging our assumptions with a deceptively simple arsenal of color, line, no line, texture and veil. The Barnhart Way, is to turn joyful and playful, serious and enraged. It makes uncomfortable demands, and gleefully refuses to match the sofa.
Education: Washington State University, Pullman, WA. B.F. Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA Columbia Basin College, Pasco, WA
Membership Awards: 1976-86 Building and Metals trades of Washington State 1982 Who's Who of the World of Women 1980-82 Who's who of American Women 1980-81 Who's Who of the West 1980 Personalities of America 1979 Local 104 Boilermakers, Seattle, WA Journeyman Mechanic Welder 1975 Local 598 Plumbers and Steamfitters, Journeyman, Pasco, WA