Artist Barbara Sue Love Newport
(photo courtesy of Barbara Sue Love Newport)
Barbara Sue Love Newport, or B. Love, works in mixed media, clay, and textile. Her collages are amazing pieces that have a unique and quite modern style to them but seem to lend themselves to any setting. B. Love is inspired by her surroundings; the sights, sounds, tastes, and smells. An instructor once described her work as “looking like running water.” She likes that assessment and tries to keep a fluid look about her work.
Her technique
She begins these projects with sketched, painted, photographed or sculpted elements. Using a digitalization process, she adds further elements to the collage mix. Her goal is “to enhance your art experience by offering canvases that are - unto themselves - original art works. The integrity of the process in which they are created reveals the powerful essence of the digital world where the copy is the original and vice versa.” To achieve this, she mixes “the computer palette of image, color, technological techniques and imagination with traditional designs and techniques to create powerful expressions across the visual spectrum.”
Art is integral in her life
B. Love says she “was born this way.” She says, “I can not remember a time in my life when I wasn't experimenting with color and line and texture...of discover and rearranging of such things.” Art is a fundamental and necessary part of her being. Not only in the artwork she makes but in the way she expresses herself and the way art touches every aspect of her life. A major goal for her is “helping to develop the talents of people who have innovative or intuitive abilities and work in unstructured situations, with imagination and creativity.”
An Art Affair & Grandma Buffalo’s
Although B. Love was born in Kansas, she often visited relatives here in Arizona and eventually moved here in 1986. She now lives in Glendale in her home that also serves as her studio. There are several other buildings on her property including Grandma Buffalo‘s, which is B Love’s ceramic studio and guest house. There she offers rooms for overnight stays or visiting guest artists and teachers as well as art classes. B. Love’s gallery, An Art Affair, contains her studio and a gallery for not only her work but other’s. The building itself, a Will Bruder designed, serpentine shaped. contemporary glass and steel structure, is a work of art unto itself. An Art Affair is open by appointment, 623-772-0140. Please browse B. Love’s website for more of her work.
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