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BIOGRAPHY –
Barbara J. Dunham
Barbara’s art education began when
her first grade teacher encouraged her
parents to send her for formal training at John Herron Art Institute
in Indianapolis, Indiana. Thus began an artistic journey that took
her through many states, outside the country and back again, and
finally to Atlanta and collage/mixed media.
After taking
her first collage class and experiencing a connection
with the medium, she was immediately drawn to magazine pages. "It was
exciting to be able to take this discarded, ordinary material and
make fine art," says Barbara. Her inspiration came from the magazine advertisement
backgrounds, colors and textures. Using a
 painterly style with an
impressionist twist, she used this everyday, ordinary paper to create
landscapes and abstracts that fooled the eye.
With more instruction and experimentation,
she added paint, oriental
papers, found materials, yarn, sand, eggshells, etc. The list of
materials constantly expands.
Today,
her art journal is filled with inspiration gleaned from all
things external translated into collage/mixed media terms. The idea
is then joined with the internal creativity to form the
impressionist and abstract collages she produces. "I have truly followed
my passion and there is blissfully no end in sight." - Barbara
Dunham
Affiliations:
Atlanta Collage Society –
Founding Member, President 2008-2010
National Collage Society – Member, Southeastern
Representative
International Association of Assemblage & Collage Artists - Member
Studied with:
Chery Baird
Nita Leland
Kay Powell
Billie Shelburn
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