Price Range: $670 – $18,000
Barbara Milne
, RCA
Barbara Milne was born in Windsor, Ontario. She studied fine art at York University, Toronto. She taught as a seasonal instructor at the Alberta College of Art (now the Alberta University of the Arts (AUArts)) from 1998-2012.
Milne’s paintings are rich in symbols and metaphors. Shape, colour, and textures combine and resonate to describe a parallel experience of place. Memory plays a complex role in Milne’s paintings. It not only involves the physical reconstruction of the artist’s experience of a place: but also embodies a recollection of previous paintings, histories, and styles. While Milne’s landscapes derive from real settings, the artist transcends the particularities of place, producing images that are richly layered, evoking a sense of wonder.
Available Works
Light & Shade – Garden
Light & Shade – Mid Summer
Light & Shade III
Light & Shade IV
Light and Shade
Light and Shade II
Light and Shade – Hydrangea
Light and Shade – Pine
Light & SHade III
Light and Shade VI
Light and Shade – Spring
Ambient light – Cameo
Ambient light – Cameo II
Light and Shade V
Late Summer
Woven – Garden, 2022
Nocturne – Boarder, 2020-22
Ambient Light – Skoki
Ambient Light
Woven – Bow River
Daisy, 2020
Woven – Pool, 2022
Woven – Blue Poppy
Flux II
Confederation Park I
Confederation Park II
Ambient Light, Bow, 2020
Woven – Cherry Tree
Woven – Hydrangeas
Woven – Pond
Morning to Night II
Cameo V
Cameo IV
Ambient Light – Aqua, 2019
Tract III, 2015-2022
Blue Poppies, 2020
Morning to Night
Veil 10
Veil 6
Veil 2
Veil 5
Veil
Catalogs
Milne – Woven Exhition e-Catalog 2022
November 19-December 7, 2022
Opening reception: November 19; 2-5pm; Artist in attendance
Woven, an exhibition of oil paintings by Barbara Milne, will open November 19th 2022 at Calgary’s Wallace Galleries. At its heart is a selection of works completed over the past three years. For this exhibition, the artist has drawn inspiration from her observation of the natural world, her knowledge of historical art, and from her extensive collection of textiles, photography, collage, and earlier pieces in her studio. Past work speaks to new work in an ongoing conversation – netting a full range of expression.
Drawing on her love of textiles, Milne chose to call the exhibition Woven likening it to a length of woolen tweed, a seemingly simple warp and weft construction which, upon closer scrutiny, proves to be an increasingly complex and seductive read. Such is the case here. In these paintings, what might appear as a singular colour from a distance, reveals itself to be overlapping colours, tones, lines and shapes. The juxtaposition of the unexpected. A surface may be transparent in some areas yet richly built up in others. In Milne’s work the close up and distant views are presented simultaneously, resulting in landscapes that are both intimate in the form of a garden and majestic such as the glacier at Lake Louise.