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THE SI
atercolor memories
Local artist captures world in paintings
ACI BONNEY
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Watercolor artist Barbara Quigley works on one of her impressionistic paintings. (Echo staff photo by Traci Bonney)
they discovered that living in a condominium wasn?t for them.
Quigley said she painted when she was younger, but her artwork took a lower priority while she was rearing her children. About 15 years ago, she started attending and holding watercolor workshops.
She sometimes works from photographs she takes, but said she prefers to work on-site. ?It?s hard to capture the feel, the mood of a scene from a
photograph.?
She once used her artistic talents to do scientific illustrations ? framing shots for medical films, making biological and neurological drawings, even creating a cartoon for a zoology professor who wanted to excite the interest of freshman zoology students.
Now she paints beach scenes, plantation buildings, park scenes, jazz musicians and other subjects. When she isn?t
out at the site of a painting, she works in a room that might have been built as a breakfast room, where there are plenty of windows and lots of natural light.
Good watercolors by well-known artists command high prices these days. Quigley mentioned several artists who are paid $25,000 or, more for a single painting.
However, she ? like most good artists ? is not in it for the money. ?I paint because I enjoy it, because it gives me pleasure.?