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BARBARA McGIVERN

Lives and works in toronto, canada
 www.bmcgivern.com
artist contact
 barbara@bmcgivern.com
BernArd’s FOLLIes, acryLic on canvas anD goLD LeaF 60x60 in. / 152x153 cm.
A typical Barbara McGivern painting vibrates with barely restrained energy. richness that could never be achieved with any other material. I paint over
Boldly composed and saturated with colour, her canvases are basically it, drip paint on it and sometime cover it up completely because I did not
abstract. The square has become one of her favourite devices, but she is like the painting and started over, there are many paintings out there with
also inspired by the shapes and colours of landscape. ”I have found that layers of gold under them, but you can not melt the gold down as it is so
the gold has added an empowering element to my paintings by adding a fine and wafer thin, but I could not use anything else but real gold ”.

LIMOnCeLLO On THe rOCKs, acryLic on canvas anD goLD LeaF 54x60 in. /137x152 cm.
BLUe JeAn, acryLic on canvas anD goLD LeaF 48x48 in. / 122x122 cm.
CABOCHOn, acryLic on canvas anD goLD LeaF 48x72 in. / 122x183 cm.