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Elizabeth Barlow | |
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| Born | 1957, Vacaville, California, United States |
| Known for | Painting |
| Style | Contemporary Realism, Hyperrealism |
| Spouse | Stephen T McClellan |
| Website | Elizabeth Barlow Art |
Elizabeth Barlow is a contemporary realist oil painter known for her portraits of flowers. She lives and works in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
Elizabeth Barlow was born at Travis Air Force Base in Vacaville, CA and grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her father was the late artist Philip Barlow, and after a detour in the performing arts, she followed his inspiration back to painting. Barlow earned her BA at the University of Utah, and Masters’ Degree from the University of Virginia. After some years living abroad, she relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area, where she continued her arts education at UC Berkeley Extension. There she studied drawing and painting with Donald Bradford and others, earning a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate with Distinction in Visual Arts. In 2007 she studied in New York City at the Art Students League.
Barlow lives and works in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA and is married to Stephen T. McClellan.
A contemporary still-life artist, Barlow begins a painting with an alla prima (initial wet on wet) layer of oil paint. Multiple glazed layers follow, which bring luminosity and depth to the subjects. To develop her composition she takes hundreds of photographs to use as her references, later combining them to realize the vision she is after.
While living in San Francisco, Barlow created a body of work she called Portraits in Absentia. In collaboration with her subjects, she composed arrangements of their most meaningful possessions. She documented personal items such as jewelry, favorite clothing, books, and a variety of keepsakes to create their portraits, without using their likenesses.
With her move to the Monterey Peninsula in 2016, Barlow’s work underwent a transformation. Finding herself immersed in sea air and surrounded by forests and year-round flowers, she was inspired to take nature as her subject. Barlow began to paint flowers, which led to her current series, Flora Portraits. She sees flowers as potent symbols of life force, of strength within fragility, and of the power of re-emergence that lies within all living things. With the support of her daily meditation practice, she believes that painting flowers is a transformative practice that allows her to slow down, look deeply, and develop a deep reverence for all living things.
Elizabeth Barlow is represented by Andra Norris Gallery in Burlingame, CA. Her work is held in public and corporate collections including the Monterey Museum of Art]; San Francisco Opera, San Francisco, CA; the Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA; The Absinthe Group, San Francisco, CA; and the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, Monterey, CA. In 2023, her work was featured in the exhibition Flora Fauna at the Monterey Museum of Art.
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