Joan Barfield

Dusk on The River is a16"x20" painting, framed in gold to provide impact, is an expressionistic landscape characterized by impasto brushwork and vibrant saturated colors of acrylic and a crackle paint medium. Joan Barfield has spent many happy days on the Alabama River and wanted to capture a mood of dusk on the river. Known for her impasto paintings, she wanted to provide a tactile quality to the painting by using heavy acrylic application on top of the cracked surface provided by crackle...

Intuitively, Joan Barfield created this painting during the Los Angeles fires of the winter of 2025. It began with an exploration of color, texture, and emotion. This abstract expressionist painting suggests a fiery landscape of trees with yellow and green elements and darker, fiery reds and oranges. The upper half of the painting suggests a canopy of trees, which contrasts with darker richer red and brown tones suggesting burnt trees on the forest floor. Using mostly a pallet knife, the thick...

Folk Victorian is a framed 16"x20" on stretched linen canvas. The artist, Joan Barfield is fascinated by older homes of the south and wanted to capture a representation of a folk victorian home ( early 1900's0 in decay. The central focus of this painting is the front view of one and half story house with a prominent gable roof structure. Using a monochromatic chalk palette of black, white and grey, Joan wanted to create a mood of decay and loss while highlighting some of the imperfect features...

The Artist Joan Barfield's interest in portraying old southern buildings led her to create this simple painting in the style of southern folk art. The coffin shop built in Gainesville, Alabama around 1860 was the inspiration for this painting. It was a showroom built by Mr. Edward King, and was the place to pick out material and wood for your coffin. This painting was created with grey, black and white chalk, and accents of acrylic color. Bold colors representing foliage and sky form a...

Two Roads Diverged Using the poetry of Robert Frost, "The Road Less Taken", Joan Barfield constructed a framed 11"x14" painting of a forest scene in which the traveler had to choose between which path he should follow. He chose the less traveled and ended up feeling all the better for it. This is a joyful, cheerful, and inviting piece made with acrylics on paper and is displayed in a frame with glass. The vibrancies of the yellow and orange colors in this fall forest scene contrasting with the...