Georgiana Cray Bart Artworks

Balls	Beer Bottles	Eggs	Embryos	Flowers	Fragments	French	Granny Smith
Grand Lido	Interiors	Jugs	Looking Down	Oranges	Pennsylvania	Portraits	Yellow Mug

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Balls	Inspired by two ceramic globes purchased at a landscape company where I conductd a workshop for the Endless Mountain Council of the Arts,	pastel - 25 x 19 1/2	pastel 19 1/2 x 25	pastel 11 x 25	Balls with Globe from Margie oil pastel/colored pencil - 20 x 13

Beer Bottles

I enjoy working with transparent and reflective objects as subjects in my paitings. The objects tell me stories as I work on them. " A Crowd Gathers" tells a story about an apparent accident. The other beer bottles are shocked.

Eggs
The neutral colors of the "brown" eggs are set against brilliant background colors in this series. "Eggs: Parade" won an award in New York City at the Broome Street Gallery.

Embryos
I am always working on new things. Sometimes they grow into a new series. "Solo #2" is about angles of light and shadows. This theme is carried over to the 29 paintings in my "Granny Smith Series".

Flowers Flowers are a subject I like to go back to again and again. Some of my new flower paintings will be shown at the Broome Street Gallery in New York City this Fall.(see Current Events).

Fragments
These collage works were done from pieces of pastel paintings that I cropped or did not finish. They relate to my Jamacian (Grand Lido) paintings because of color and shapes.

French

On the Road to
San Remy #1
pastel (triptych) - 35 x 31

Monet's Lily Pond #2
pastel/mixed media
11 x 8 1/2

On a trip to Paris and Provence with a group of artists, I had the opportunity to paint and tour the beautiful scenery of France. I enjoyed the rustic landscape and the special light painted by so many great artists. Monet and Van Gough are two of my favorites.

Street in Avignon - pastel
14 1/2 x 25

Monsseur Robert's Farm in Verqueres, France #1
colored pencil
9 3/4 x 12 3/4

Farmer's Field in Provence
pastel
24 1/2 x 13 1/2

On the Road to San Remy #2
pastel - 25 x 8

Grand Lido Twenty-one pastel paintings and collages that were inspired by the tropical beauty of the Grand Lido Negril Resort in Jamaica are on display throughout the resort in Negril, Jamaica. Nine of the paintings have been made into signed and numbered, limited edition prints and are available for purchase. Contact Georgiana by email or at 570 947-8387

Granny Smith

The subject of a 5 page article in the May/June 2002 issue of Pastel Journal Magazine, and featured in The book Pure Color: The Best of Pastel, the 29 paintings in this series explore the color green set in relationships with blue, orange and yellow backgrounds. The light source creates variations in the relationships of color and shapes. As with many of my paintings, the objects tell me stories which are reflected in the titles: "Granny Smith Big: On Stage shown has lighting that reminded me of a play on stage.

Interiors

I have been painting still life in settings for a few years now. Some of this new work will be seen in my show in New Your City this fall at the Broome Street Gallery. (see "Current Events" page)

Jugs

This series illustrates a concept I like my students to think about: that is, that parts of a subject can make interesting compositions just as well as the whole subject.

Looking Down

Working with the still life at my feet, in the Looking Down Series, I believe I achieved one of my goals in painting: to have the viewer see the abstract relationships of shapes while painting realism.

Oranges

I sometimes begin a series and pick it up a few years later. This happened with "four Oranges and a Blue Spoon which was done two years before the other. I enjoy the abstract quality of these paintings which obviously have realistic subjects.

Pennsylvania

Cider Run Road - colored pencil
16 x 8

Lockville Road - colored pencil
8 x 5

Brace's Pond and Apple Orchard #1
pastel
12 x 8

Brace's Farm House
pastel
10 x 8

Portraits	Self Portrait pastel 20 x 24	Jean at 16 charcoal 18 x 24	Maureen pastel 19 x 22	Rockey pastel 15 x 19	Girl in a Vest pastel 20 x 24	My Friend Joan pastel 15 x 19
I paint and draw custom portraits of people and pets from photographs and from life. I enjoy that moment when the work looks like the individual and also captures their special personality. Price depends on media: black and white (pencil, charcoal, etc) or color (pastel, colored pencil, oil, acrylic, etc) and size of the finished piece.

Yellow Mug

A little yellow mug with a black rim was the star of seventeen paintings which have won numerous awards throughout the country and in New York City. Most of the series was published in the books The Best of Pastel and The Best of Oil Painting and American Artist Magazine, June,2003.

©2009 Georgiana Cray Bart
Wilkes-Barre, PA
(570) 947-8387
gcraybart@gcraybart-artworks.com

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