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Born: Barbara Joyce. 1917 in California, U.S.A.


Living on Saba, Netherlands Antilles, since 1991.



PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST:

I started my career as a painter by first working with Romare Bearden, well known for his collage. I did collage for several years and then went on to more painterly work. Now I do a little of both. Before painting, I spent 20 years as an actress in New York City, appearing on Broadway, television soap operas, and radio shows. In 1972, I moved to St. Maarten in the Dutch Caribbean, and then to the small, picturesque island of Saba in 1991. 



In his book, “Art Spirit”, Robert Henri says artists love their work regardless of the quality because they don’t see the painting, they see the marks they made when in a heightened state of creativity. I would like to paint in such a heightened state so that my “marks” would be so potent, so telling, that not only when I look at them would I see such creativity, but anyone looking at them would! I think that’s the most wonderful thing I could do for anyone, put him/her in touch with his/her own creative energy! Creativity comes from the subconscious, and while most of my work is intuitive, it’s a conversation between me and the painting. When there’s nothing more to say, my painting is complete. 



EXHIBITIONS:
2003 Willard’s, Saba, Netherlands Antilles

2002 Coffee Pocket Gallery, Venice, Italy

2001 “Between the Lines”, Traveling Caribbean exhibition

2000 “Caribbean Art”, Traveling Caribbean exhibition
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1999 “Arte 1999”, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles

1998 “Masks of Venice”, Art Addiction Gallery, Venice, Italy

1999 Willard’s, Saba, Netherlands Antilles

1997 Bearden Gallery Fine Arts Gallery. St. Maarten, Neth. Antilles

1997 “Women and Identity”, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles

1996 “Saban Art”, Gallery 86, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles

1996 “Art of the N. A.”, Royal Neth. Embassy, Caracas, Venezuela

1995 2nd International Female Artists’ Biennial”, Stockholm, Sweden

1994-96 Museo de Arte Moderno, Dominican Republic

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