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About the Author
A transplant from California, Barb’s lived in New England since the
early 1990s. When asked why she left, she explains she loves
trees. Where she grew up, she thought only rich people could
have trees. Of course, it’s not quite that simple, but close enough.
During one visit to New Mexico, she took a class in encaustic
printmaking taught by Paula Roland. When she returned home,
she was unsure how to proceed next, and the materials sat on a
shelf for a while. Later, several artist friends expressed an interest
in encaustic, and Barb dug out her materials to teach a weekend
workshop. After the workshop ended, she wanted to learn more
about encaustic, and she signed up for a beginning class taught
by Tracy Spadafora.
She found encaustic quite challenging. Barb sought other
instruction and attended the IEA Conference in Massachusetts to
learn as much as she could. Encaustic is by far the most versatile
of any of the media she has worked with. It lends itself to her
intuitive, experimental style of making art. The techniques,
textures, unusual surfaces, and substrata are endless.
Barb’s work has been in galleries and museums in New Zealand,
Santa Fe, Los Angeles, New York, Portland, ME, and Boston, where
she is represented by the Bromfield Gallery
in SOWA, Boston’s Art District. In 2011, she
was co-Founder of MassWax, IEA’s New
England chapter. In 2016, she received IEA’s
La Vendéenne Award for Artistry and was
one of the featured artists in Encaustic Art
in the 21st Century, Schif er Publishing.
You can view Barb’s work at
www.bconeart.com
www.facebook.com/BarbConeArt
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