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BARBARA EARL THOMAS
Barbara Earl Thomas was born in Seattle in
1948; she grew up in the city and attended the University of Washington
where she studied with Jacob Lawrence. Her work has been included in
area solo and group exhibitions for twenty-five years and has been
collected by regional arts commissions, the Seattle Art Museum, and
local corporations. She has been represented by the Francine Seders
Gallery since 1984.
Thomas's paintings combine discipline with passion. They are carefully
composed and painted egg temperas on paper. While small in scale and
subdued in color, they are full of human drama with figures tossed in
tumultuous seas or skies as Thomas reflects on the precarious state of
the world since the millennium.
contact Alison@SedersGallery.com for a current bio |
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| A Folio, Book of Fishing (Suite of four
block prints) 2006 - The Suite, a limited edition
of 25, includes a title page that is suitable for framing. All lino
cuts are hand carved by the artist and printed by Sidereal Press. |
I am from a family of fishermen
who migrated from the South in the early 1940’s, specifically
Louisiana, Texas and Florida. While they left much behind, what they
brought with them was a love for being out of doors on the lakes
fishing for food to feed the family and sometimes the whole
neighborhood. What set us apart from the Native Americans and the
Scandinavians who came before us was our ritual of fishing for bottom
fish. For years after my family’s arrival in the Northwest in the
1940’s there was no concept or talk of trout or steelhead. It was
catfish, crappy and perch that lived in our dreams. Hence my narrative
starts with a search for night crawlers and earthworms.
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