Palm Jungle | Elizabeth Fontaine-Barr | Original Acrylic Painting
Can't visit in person? Schedule a private virtual viewing with Marcolina, from anywhere in the world. Request a Virtual Viewing → Payment plans available · Ships worldwide · Certificate of Authenticity included · Contact us to discuss options Original Acrylic on Canvas by Elizabeth Fontaine-Barr · Expressionist painter · Available at Marcolina's Fine Arts Gallery, Tampa, Florida · Ships worldwide Palm trunks and fronds hold their recognizable shape here, but the background behind them breaks into bold, unblended blocks of yellow, lavender, and red-orange, geometry pushing up against the organic curve of the trees rather than sitting quietly behind them. This is the most directly Fauvist piece in the group, the bold, unmixed color Fontaine-Barr has said came right back to her when she returned to painting after years away. Color used as its own subject, not just filling in the shape of a tree. Artist Elizabeth Fontaine-Barr Medium Acrylic on Canvas Dimensions 36 × 36 in Certificate Certificate of Authenticity included Shipping Ships worldwide with full insurance Payment Payment plans available Collector's Note A large-scale piece at 36 by 36 inches, and the boldest, most color-forward work in this group. Acquisition Available through Marcolina's Fine Arts Gallery with worldwide shipping, full insurance, and professional art packaging. Local pickup is available by private arrangement, contact us directly to coordinate a time and location. Payment plans available. Private viewings by appointment in Tampa, Florida. Virtual viewings available for collectors anywhere in the world. Contact us to inquire. New to collecting? Read our collector guide → A standard shipping rate is charged at checkout. Once your work is packed, we calculate the actual shipping cost for its size and destination. If there is a difference, we will follow up to either invoice the additional amount or refund the difference, whichever applies. "I call myself an expressionist painter. I tend to paint what I feel rather than what I see. A lot of my landscapes are completely from my imagination. If I use one of my travel photos for a trigger, I must put the photo away so that I always infuse my imagination into the scene. Oftentimes the scene changes into something unrecognizable from the original. The surprise is always a delight for me. I love it." Elizabeth Fontaine-Barr About the Artist Elizabeth Fontaine-Barr was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, shaped early by the food, music, and street artists of the French Quarter. She decided to become an artist at age nine, and went on to study painting at the University of New Orleans after a detour through fashion illustration at FIT in New York, one year in the city convincing her she wasn't ready to leave home yet. Her career after college was anything but a straight line. She opened a frame shop in New Orleans' Garden District, taught children's art classes at the New Orleans Museum of Art, sketched on Julia Street, worked as a food stylist on film shoots, sold advertising for a music magazine, and managed a New Orleans rock band, often juggling two or three of these at once. She met her husband, John, playing bass in that band. After becoming a mother at 45, Elizabeth stepped away from painting entirely to raise her daughter, not returning to the easel until her daughter was in high school. She still remembers the drive home from one of her first painting sessions back, calling her husband to say, "I have my art-eyes back. I can see again." The bold, Fauvist-influenced color she'd loved in college came right back with her. Elizabeth now lives and works in California, continuing to develop the bold, imagination-driven style rooted in her New Orleans upbringing. Explore more works by Elizabeth Fontaine-Barr →