Elizabeth Barton ~ Athens, GA

Elizabeth Barton was born and educated in York, England, and emigrated to the US in 1976. She has taken many art and surface design classes and holds a degree in Psychology. She recently resigned from the University of Georgia to devote herself full time to traveling, teaching and making art quilts. She addresses both conceptual and formal issues in her work. Reflected light, translucency and the effects of time are recurring themes, as are repeated patterns of windows and architectural forms. Recently more ephemeral patterns such as those created by water and shadow have become a source of inspiration. She explores formal issues of balance and color, space and light in landscape in her work, pushing the medium to its maximum and well beyond tradition.

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