Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook 2014

www.bmcgivern.com
BarbaraMcGivern
Lady B,
acrylic on canvas,
gold leaf and swarowski
crystal
183x122 cm
A typical Barbara McGivern
painting vibrates with barely
restrained energy. Boldly composed
and saturated with colour,
her canvases are basically
abstract. The square has become
one of her favourite devices,
but she is also inspired
by the shapes and colours of
landscape.
Maybe
acrylic on canvas,
gold leaf and
swarowski crystal
122x122 cm
„I have found that the gold has added
an empowering element to my
paintings by adding a richness that
could never be achieved with any
other material. I paint over it, drip
paint on it and sometime cover it up
completely because I did not like the
painting and started over...there are
many paintings out there with layers
of gold under them...but you can not
melt the gold down as it is so fine and
wafer thin....but I could not use anything
else but real gold.. “ – Barbara
Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook
21