Barbara Williams Art Exhibit

Barbara Williams was born and raised in the Missouri Ozarks and has studied and exhibited around the country and internationally. Her work has been included in international juried printmaking exhibitions in England, Italy, Poland,  Yugoslavia, and numerous juried national and regional shows in the USA, including one held at the Smithsonian, which was also part of a year-long traveling exhibit.

Williams’s prints and mixed media collage paintings are included in permanent collections in several galleries, in private collections in the USA and Italy, and have been in four Watercolor USA, Springfield, Missouri, exhibits. Influenced by impressions from an Ozarks 1940s-50s childhood, her pieces are personal expressions which help preserve the history of that time and place.

Artist Statement: Rural Ozarks family images in their environment — drawings, etchings and mixed media collage — have been the major thrust of my work for 50 years. Portions of these etchings have been reconfigured and are displayed alongside the original etchings. The mother and child theme appears frequently in this exhibit. These pieces are of my own family. Though not taken from actual photographs, they are imagined, could-have-been snapshots.

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