BARBARA LEINER GREENSTEIN  

Artist statement:

Shapes unfold and lines emerge
Engaged in process
Embracing my canvas begins a relationship of discovery I sit and observe until the work speaks to me
Lines creating form, texture mystery
Push-Pull energy creating tension
Creating, destroying and rebuilding
Gestural lines like a map leading
Intimate landscapes of life

Boston based painter, Barbara Leiner, maintains a lyrical hand in her abstract figurations and inner landscapes. Abstracting life’s journeys, capturing its essence using color, texture and gestural form. Destroying a line or color, then daring to reinvent it using line as binding cord.  Motivated by the push, pull energy as the painting evolves, breaking free to trust the process. Shapes of color marking territory, lines, boundaries marking the journey. 

My world is alive on canvas, words fall away as I trust what shows up.  I love oil paint, the strength and trust for the medium to show me the way.  As the thick luscious colors “schmere” across the canvas with my palate knife, a chill runs through me. All distractions fall away. It’s a journey that evolves within me and the conversation that I am having with the canvas. 

With a background in nursing, then fashion design, Barbara was drawn to painting while raising energetic twin boys in Connecticut.  Moving to Boston allowed her the freedom to open a studio and participate in juried several juried painting residency programs in Provincetown and Maine.  Spending summers on Martha’s Vineyard has been inspirational.  Her work is on view in her Back Bay studio and is included in many private collections.