Gleason Fine Art

FINE ART:

Born in New Jersey, Barbara Cooper Gleason has always been fascinated by the natural world - its birds, animals, and plants...as well as its beauty and how its denizens and organisms interconnect.

She has loved to draw since she was a small child - growing up at a time when a child could freely wander through countryside and neighboring woods. She observed and noticed how animals walked or flew...and played, and she especially loved watching how changing light made each vista or animal appear dramatically different...

She studied graphic design and fiber design in college, eagerly adopting the computer as a new tool when it became available. But she has always loved to draw, and still does most of her illustration and design work first in pencil. She doesn’t remember a time when she wasn’t trying to depict the world around her. In college she studied design and fiber arts, and for the past 25 years she has worked in the graphic arts field.

Drawing and painting to express the world around her, her colored pencil paintings of nature - wildlife, plants, and landscapes - choose themselves as she responds to the way light falls upon the scene or animal. Nature changes so often that at no time can the same entity or vista ever be the same!