The Art Portfolio of Barbara Naeser
Barbara Naeser is an artist based in Marblehead, Massachusetts. In her recent practice, the artist has been working with pastels, though she has also used oil paint and watercolour.
I enjoy Barbara’s relatively loose but variable style, and the way she uses pastels and paint to create layered, dense images with just enough detail to encourage a closer look. The artist’s pastel series often utilizes a heavier, earth-toned colour palette and explores natural subject matter including animals and plants. It’s interesting to be able to see the works both in thumbnail form and close-up -- the nature of the artist’s style means that the images seem to resolve when seen from far away, but become a little more abstracted and mysterious up close.
Barbara’s children’s portraits capture an impressionist view of the subjects that seems to reflect the hazy, softened quality of memory. Perhaps in a few years these works will reflect the memories of their subjects concerning the vivid scenes in the paintings.
