Aline is the nom d’artiste of mixed-media artist Barbara Aline Blanchard who lives, works and exhibits in both Massachusetts and Florida.

She is a published novelist and poet whose expressive paintings are often influenced by the water by which she lives.

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Her paintings, assemblages, and ceramics are about texture and color. If poetry is a word picture, then painting is a visual poem: the two art forms complement each other perfectly.

Multiple Originals
While B. Aline creates originals, she also takes the Giclée to a new level. B. Aline transforms the Giclée, a print process, into an original through her signature application of texture, color and form. This new product becomes an original--hence the term--multiple original. Since these are originals they are priced accordingly.

What exactly is Giclée? It’s a new medium made possible by the technology available to artists in the 21st Century. Just like Rembrandt made good use of the Camera Obscura, select artists of our day and age are using Giclée to offer original adaptations of artwork at an affordable price to people who crave good art and want to have unique, original paintings at affordable prices.

There are several steps in the creation of a Giclée. First, the original artwork is created and then photographed. The photograph is scanned into a computer and the computer generates a copy in archival inks (meaning inks that will not fade over time) on the specified size of primed canvas. The artist may then overpaint the canvas with colors and textures that may or may not differ from the original. Aline’s Giclées become multiple originals when she hand finishes each one.

 

Very often, collectors are torn between the “original” and the “multiple originals” because artistic expression occurs on each level.

Education
Ms. Blanchard has studied with more than a dozen artists, most notably with Michael Dowling at the Danforth Museum School, Framingham, Ma. and Tatiana McKinney at the Venice Art Center, Venice, Fl. She has traveled widely and visited museums and galleries throughout the United States and Europe, a traveling classroom.

Associations
Women Contemporary Artists (WCA) Florida
Sarasota Visual Arts Center (SVAC) Florida
Venice Art Center (VAC) Florida
Alliance for the Arts (AA) Fort Meyers, Florida
Framingham Artists’ Guild (FAG) past
The Danforth Group (DG)
Metrowest Artists Cooperative (MAC), Co-founder and Vice President
Water Street Mill Artists Association (WSM), Holliston, MA

Gloucester Mass Historical Society

One-person shows
Lee Alliance for the Arts (2003)
Danforth Museum School (1999)
Barnes and Noble (1999,1997)
Bank of Boston (1996)
Sea Dreams, Installation, 5/96-8/99. Originally part of an installation exhibition, this popular stopping point for museum visitors was kept on as a long term installation.

Selected group exhibitions

Venice Art Center (VAC) Member's Spring Exhibit, 2006
VAC  Portrait and Figure Show  2006 : merit award, sculpture Juror: Eleanor Merritt
Art Center of Sarasota, (ACS) Travel Show, 2006
Horatio Alger Art Show, Marlboro, MA award

Absolutely Abstract VAC 2005 (award) Juror: Alberto Cruz

Women Contemporary Artists Winter Juried Exhibit 2005. Juror: Joseph Melançon

Venice Art Center Spring Exhibit 2005

Sarasota Holiday Exhibit 2004, VAC, Jurors: Jorge and Elena Blanco
Winners’ Invitational
2D-3D, Lee Alliance for the Arts, 2000 Juror: Bonnie Clearwater, Director Museum of Contemporary Art, N. Miami
Salon de Refuse, Danforth MS, 1995 chairperson
Center for Artistic Expression; Horatio Alger Show (award)