#FoodforThoughtCreativeQuarantine Today Hera Board member and past President, Barbara Pagh shares a video from her studio. I have been working on these collages of handmade paper that are memories of colors as I look out at the sky and water in Matunuck at different times of day and weather conditions. Compositionally they go back to my minimalist roots with straightforward horizontal bands of color and texture. I find these collages meditative to make and a necessary respite from the news.
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#MeetHeraArtistBarbaraPagh Tell us your artist story, some biographical info, when did you decide to be an artist? Why do you make art? Where did you study? Etc. I didn’t have much art background before college though I always liked to make things. I didn’t seriously consider art until my sophomore year at Mount Holyoke College. I took a sculpture class with Leonard DeLonga and his teaching was an inspiration and made me see the world in a new way. I also studied printmaking with JoEllen Knight, became hooked on the process and subsequently pursued printmaking in graduate school at NYU. What do you want people to walk away with after experiencing your work? Most of my prints are nature based, though they are abstracted. I want people to look at the natural world more closely after seeing my work. I also have worked to create larger scale installations of handmade paper based on megalithic structures. With these installations I want the viewer to have an experien...