Barbara Downs Bio

Barbara Downs was born in Virginia, has lived all over the United States, and now makes her home in Santa Cruz, California.

She received her art degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz, specializing in lithography with additional studies in printmaking, painting, and drawing.

After her years as a printmaker, Barbara focused on drawing for many years, with an interest in line, color and ambiguous narrative. She is now working in oils, encaustics, and metal/mixed-media sculpture.

Barbara also studied and worked as a draftsperson and mechanical designer, and uses these skills in her art practice.

She has shown nationally, and her work is included in the collection of the University of California, as well as corporate and private collections.

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