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a. Issue One: Beth Barnett.
I work from my photographs to reinterpret and preserve the beauty of captured places/moments into paintings. I look for resonance of color, composition, and contrast in the world around me, always on the hunt for moments of aesthetic serendipity. Beauty exists in the natural world, but also in the world constructed by humans, and in the intersection of the natural and artificial. It can appear in unlikely places, or through the random alignment of elements - light, colors, clouds, rock formations, buildings, objects. By painting pieces of my world, I reexamine these captured moments of "found" beauty, enhance them, and share them with others.
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Bio
Beth A. Barnett, originally from Indianapolis, IN, currently lives in Corvallis, Oregon. She is a writer, artist, illustrator, craftsperson,
and organizer of data and things. She derives paychecks from her work in a hospital human resources office, painting and pursuing
other projects part-time. She has degrees in history and geological science from the Ohio State University, and has studied art at Herron
School of Art/IUPUI and Oberlin College.
Beth's artwork and other projects are viewable online at: www.peak.org/~bbarnett.