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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.
www.balineblanchard.com
info@balineblanchard.com
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)
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Laundry Day
Smiling Dog
Fossil
Sea of Poppies
Blue Dog
Sea Horse
Egyptian Dog
Tropical Nights
Wave
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