Barbara Wolff our 2008 Premium Prize Winner
The 2008 Premium prize winner was Barbara Wolff. Here is an excerpt from a conversation I had with her about her work. There will be more of this in the RASA newsletter which will come out shortly.
Gloria: How shall we start? May be I should say why I like your work… I liked your work because strangely enough, I don’t know if it means anything to you, they reminded me of Renaissance paintings like Titian or Veronese somebody like that, exotic and that was my main feeling; but they’re quite mystical aren’t they?
Barbara: Yes I think they are. They start off from quite a scientific point I think because I am very interested in the patterns of nature and how the microcosm has got similar patterns to the macrocosm like for example here we can see the star formations are in the carpet, and it’s got similar patterns to the coral formations on the top of it. Also on this piece (a hanging basket) I am working on branching systems; it’s based on Fibonacci and the Golden Section.
Gloria: Which is renaissance?
Barbara: Yes and I’m very fascinated by renaissance paintings especially; and I come from a painting background. I used to be a painter but it’s kind of transformed for me…
More images of Barbara’s work can be found in the gallery
Our new website!
Welcome to our new website. It’s not quite finished yet but we think it’s already looking good. Over the next month or two we’ll be putting lots of our members work on the site. It’s really exciting to see it all coming together and we hope you like it.
We’re using Flickr to provide our online picture gallery. Any work shown on our site can also be found on our Flickr page (www.flickr.com/photos/rasalumni/). We’re hoping this will draw a lot of attention from the people who visit Flickr every day.
We welcome those who are studying in the Royal Academy Schools at present (including ex graduates who left up to 18 months ago), so if you’d like us to include your work let us know ; you will find information on how to submit up to 3 images on the membership page.
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