April Issue 2002
Island Images at the Hilton Head Art League Gallery
The Hilton Head Art League invites you to take a tour along America's East Coast with member artist Barbara Snow and her Island Images at the Art League's Gallery in Pineland Station on Hilton Head Island, SC. The exhibit will be on view April 23 - June 1. Barbara Snow, the featured artist, has captured the essence of very special island places from Canada to the Bahamas and brought them to life in her pastel paintings. Vivid colors, quiet little hideaways and unique setting so real, you really believe you're there.
Snow is a former high school art teacher and administrator. Being the only art teacher at the high school where she taught, Snow became a "jack of all trades" teaching beginning through advanced art, pottery, metalsmithing and silver casting, arts and crafts, and the history of art.
Since her move to Hilton Head in 1997 when her husband retired, she has had much more time to pursue her own interests. Taking advantage of the workshops offered by the Art League, Snow has studied with such masters as Frank Webb, Sheila Parsons, Joyce Nagel, Jim Kosvenec, Doug Dawson and Bill Herring. Though she has worked in all mediums, her work in this show is pastels. A Bluffton garden, a beach in the Bahamas, the Nantucket Storyteller or some sea oats on our own beaches provide the inspiration and set the tone of her work.
"Coming back to Hilton Head to live, after my first visit in 1969, is a dream come true," says Snow. "I feel so fortunate to be able to live on such a wonderful island, where inspiration for painting is everywhere." She confesses to missing work in clay, one of her favorite mediums, because of a lack of space in her home. She admits that her loom has been idle, also.
But Snow is far from idle. "Working in pastels has become a new source of pleasure," she adds. "I feel like one of my former students when they used to get super excited about a project we were doing and became tremendously involved in the creative processes. I love the way the rich colors blend to capture exactly the scene in my mind. There is so much to learn, to experiment with, to discover and to enjoy!"
Snow's paintings are in many private collections across the country. One of her paintings was recently shown in the Southeastern Pastel Society's Member Juried Show and she will also be exhibiting at the Hilton Head Art League's National Juried Show at the Self Family Arts Center in May. She also exhibits regularly at the Art League's Gallery, with the Low Country Artists and is a member of the SC Watercolor Society, the Southeastern Pastel Society, The Applepie Painters, and the Society of Bluffton Artists. Active with the Hilton Head Art League, Snow is secretary of the organization and represents its artists as a member of the Artist Advisory Council.
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