BIOGRAPHY

'Barbara Fontaine-White sees landscape as a physical experience which forges a relationship with herself, the viewer and the painting.

 

In 2019 she received a grant to develop a new body of work using the landscape as subject. The work in this portfolio represents her observations.

 

Fontaine-White taught painting and drawing at the university level for over thirty years. She retired in the spring 0f 2023 as a full professor from the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor and now works as a full time artist. Her paintings start with observed reality and are synthesized through composition, memory and imagination. Her work incorporates oil paint, cold wax medium, paint sticks, pastels and charcoal stressing materiality.

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Education:

MFA Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX

MA in Art University at Albany, NY