Featured artist
Barbara Benedetti Newton
Washington, USA
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- Offer workshops/classes
Specialty Categories
Painting/Drawing - Landscape
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Painting/Drawing - Still Life
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Artist Statement/Bio
In 1965, after attending art school in Seattle, I began my professional art career as a Fashion Illustrator for major department stores in Seattle and San Francisco.
Raising two children, cut flowers and vegetables for the Seattle Pike Place Market and a flock of sheep for spinning and knitting resulted in a twenty-year sabbatical from two-dimensional art.
In 1990 I purchased colored pencils and for the next dozen years I explored still life subjects in that medium, served as President of the Colored Pencil Society of America and went on to coauthor Colored Pencil Solution Book. It was with this medium that I began to establish gallery connections throughout the Pacific Northwest and began teaching workshops at my Studio, Frye Art Museum - Seattle and Sitka Center for Art & Ecology – Oregon.
For many years I admired the spontaneous look possible with soft pastel. I began exploration with pastel and with a new subject - the landscape. I fell in love with the medium and the subject and in 2003 I had my first gallery show of pastel work. In 2012, I authored Pastel Drawing: Expert Answers.
My love of pastel continues to this day though I have spent periods of time over the last few years painting in oil.
In retrospect, I seem to have a history of exploring a medium to exhaustion, taking a break, and beginning again with a new focus. My expression of relationships – color to form, object to subject, shadow to light - remain constants throughout my work.
ART EDUCATION
1963-1965 Burnley School of Professional Art, Seattle, Washington
AWARDS
2015 – Directors Award – NWPS 29th International Open Exhibition, American Art Company, Tacoma, WA
2015 – Third Place Award – Pastel Society of the West Coast 2015 Annual Members Online Show
2014 – Hans Holbein Award, NWPS 2014 Members Exhibition, Allied Arts Association, Richland, WA
2014 – Jack Richeson Award, Northwest Pastel Society 28th International, American Art Company, Tacoma,WA
2013 – Pastel Porter Award, Pastel Society of the West Coast, Pastels USA International, Ross, CA
2013 – Juror’s Award, NPS 27th International Open Exhibition, American Art Company, Tacoma, WA
2013 – Third Place Award, International Association of Pastel Societies Twenty-First Juried Web Show
2013 – Master Circle Membership Honor, International Association of Pastel Societies, Albuquerque, NM
2012 – Third Place Award, IAPS 2012 Web Exhibition
2012 – Best of Show, Northwest Pastel Society Members’ Exhibition, Hood River, OR
2012 – First Place Award, Women Painters of Washington Member Exhibition, Anacortes, WA
2012 – Best of Show, Northwest Pastel Society 26th International Open Exhibition, Tacoma, WA
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In 1965, after attending art school in Seattle, I began my professional art career as a Fashion Illustrator for major department stores in Seattle and San Francisco.
Raising two children, cut flowers and vegetables for the Seattle Pike Place Market and a flock of sheep for spinning and knitting resulted in a twenty-year sabbatical from two-dimensional art.
In 1990 I purchased colored pencils and for the next dozen years I explored still life subjects in that medium, served as President of the Colored Pencil Society of America and went on to coauthor Colored Pencil Solution Book. It was with this medium that I began to establish gallery connections throughout the Pacific Northwest and began teaching workshops at my Studio, Frye Art Museum - Seattle and Sitka Center for Art & Ecology – Oregon.
For many years I admired the spontaneous look possible with soft pastel. I began exploration with pastel and with a new subject - the landscape. I fell in love with the medium and the subject and in 2003 I had my first gallery show of pastel work. In 2012, I authored Pastel Drawing: Expert Answers.
My love of pastel continues to this day though I have spent periods of time over the last few years painting in oil.
In retrospect, I seem to have a history of exploring a medium to exhaustion, taking a break, and beginning again with a new focus. My expression of relationships – color to form, object to subject, shadow to light - remain constants throughout my work.
ART EDUCATION
1963-1965 Burnley School of Professional Art, Seattle, Washington
AWARDS
2015 – Directors Award – NWPS 29th International Open Exhibition, American Art Company, Tacoma, WA
2015 – Third Place Award – Pastel Society of the West Coast 2015 Annual Members Online Show
2014 – Hans Holbein Award, NWPS 2014 Members Exhibition, Allied Arts Association, Richland, WA
2014 – Jack Richeson Award, Northwest Pastel Society 28th International, American Art Company, Tacoma,WA
2013 – Pastel Porter Award, Pastel Society of the West Coast, Pastels USA International, Ross, CA
2013 – Juror’s Award, NPS 27th International Open Exhibition, American Art Company, Tacoma, WA
2013 – Third Place Award, International Association of Pastel Societies Twenty-First Juried Web Show
2013 – Master Circle Membership Honor, International Association of Pastel Societies, Albuquerque, NM
2012 – Third Place Award, IAPS 2012 Web Exhibition
2012 – Best of Show, Northwest Pastel Society Members’ Exhibition, Hood River, OR
2012 – First Place Award, Women Painters of Washington Member Exhibition, Anacortes, WA
2012 – Best of Show, Northwest Pastel Society 26th International Open Exhibition, Tacoma, WA
See website for more.
Gallery Representation & Exhibition Schedule
Attic Gallery, Camas, WA
American Art Company, Tacoma, WA
Scott Milo Gallery, Anacortes, WA
American Art Company, Tacoma, WA
Scott Milo Gallery, Anacortes, WA
Workshops/Classes Offered
Open Studio once a month
