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The husband and wife team of JC Maxon and Barbara Smith have exhibited and won awards at a number of galleries and shows in the Southwest.
An archeologist by profession, Jim has used his education and artistic talents to pursue watercolors and pastels. He prefers landscapes, cityscapes and trains, and enjoys working on location as he thinks that the pleine air painting enhances the freshness and spontaneity of the art. Jim owned and operated the Alma Fine Art Gallery in Alma Colorado before he moved to Southern Colorado.
Historically, Barbara’s interests have been fibers and fabrics with a special passion for antique linens and laces. Barbara believes that antique linens have the “heart and soul” of the past. Barbara utilized her artistic talents starting as a young girl when she created wardrobes for her dolls and continued to pursue her fervor while working with the antique linens.
JC and Barbara joined their artistic talents when they married in 2007 and are working with traditional, vintage, and contemporary cameras to produce silver gelatin black and white photographs and ink jet prints. Some of the photographs are hand tinted with photo oils in the style of old pictures and are reminiscent of historical photos. Their work is truly collaborative. They both make the images, share in the processing, final composition, printing, matting and framing. Often an image made by one is tinted by the other. They prefer to record the world around them with traditional photographic methods for the distinctive look that techniques give their work.
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