Artwork copyright Jacqueline Barnett. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, 2017.

Artwork copyright Jacqueline Barnett. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, 2017.

The Return Home, 1994

Jacqueline Barnett
(American, born 1934)

Location: Skagit Valley College, Mount Vernon

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

The Return Home is an expressive abstract painting by artist Jacqueline Barnett, characterized by energetic, suggestive, and ambiguous forms. The artist notes that this painting seeks to suggest momentum, voyages and cycles. She notes "I want the viewer to feel all the risk, energy, and possibility in the canvas."

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Skagit Valley College.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Jacqueline Barnett is a Seattle-based artist. Her abstract artworks explore visual narratives and emotions found in the interaction of color, gesture, and form.
Born in New York, Barnett took an interest in art from a young age. In 1955, she graduated from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. In 1966, her husband accepted a faculty position at Stanford Law School and they moved to California with their five children. She first took formal painting classes at Stanford, where she became interested in feminism and in communicating a sense of self in her paintings and monotype prints. She and her husband have lived in Seattle since 1985, where she continues to create expressive and energetic abstract paintings.