Barbara Eberhard

Artist Statement: “Blossom Voices” is a series of still lifes of  flowers that symbolize universal emotions.  I chose to compose those emotions in haiku and tanka, the Japanese poetic art forms. Gum Bichromate is a combination of photography, watercolor and printmaking. There is emotionality to the gum print, like images you remember from dreams or scenes from your memory. There is a mystery to the print that allows the viewers to find their own meaning in the image. For me it is very meditative, hands-on, manipulating and creating an image. While working on a print, layer-by-layer, day-by-day, I become intimate with the image as it ingrains upon my mind and heart and soul.