I was born and raised on a small farm in Connecticut where my family always had one or more dogs. I attended UMass and Southern Connecticut University majoring in art education. Moving to Cape Cod, I taught art and photography in public schools. Computers and the change from film to digital have put the medium of photography in dialogue with painting, printmaking and other kinds of art. Digital art is incredibly malleable and open to interactivity—my interest is to combine digital imaging with transfer printmaking.
Dogs Wait and Mutt Shots are recent photo essays about the relationship between humans and their dogs.
ArtSynergies Group Shows
2012 The Art of Digital Printmaking Winter Workshops Series for PAAM Members, Provincetown, MA
2011 TRANSFERmations: Mixed Media Digital Printmaking, part of The Boston Cyberarts Festival, Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA
2011 ArtSynergies: Digital Printmaking for Fine Art, Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA
2008 ArtSynergies: Digital Transformations, Brewster Ladies’ Library, Brewster, MA
2007 Four Photographers, Snow Library, Orleans, MA
Recent Exhibitions and Juried Shows
2013 Making Waves, Arts Foundation of Cape Cod, Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA
2012 Members’ Juried Winter and Holiday, juried by Jane Paradise/Mike Wright, PAAM Provincetown, MA
2012 Members’ Juried Minatures, juried by Paula Tognarelli, PAAM, Provincetown, MA
2012 Portraits, juried by Jon Friedman and Maggie Van Sciver, Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA
2012 Pairings: Art of the Garden, curated by Richard Lacasse, PAAM, Provincetown, MA
2012 The Fine Art of Photography 2nd Annual Juried Photography Exhibition, Plymouth Center for the Arts
2012 Color Single Image Contest 2012 Silver Award, B&W + COLOR Magazine
2012 Continued Vision—Seeing in New Ways, Stan Godwin Invitational, Orleans, MA
2011 Members’ Juried Holiday Cards, PAAM, Provincetown, MA
2011 International Color Dual Projection Exhibit, Greater Lynn Photographic Association
2011 Members’ Juried, curated by James Veatch, PAAM, Provincetown, MA
2010 Members’ Juried, PAAM, Holiday Cards curated by Robert Henry and M.M. Battelle
2010 Flowers, Nickerson Gallery, Chatham, MA
2010 Beach Dogs, Nickerson Gallery, Chatham, MA
2010 Raku Extravaganza and Printmaking Spectacular, Castle Hill, Truro, MA
2010 Printmakers of Cape Cod at Cape Cod Museum of Art, Juried Exhibition, Dennis, MA
2010 Hot off the Press Members’ Show, Juried Exhibition, PCC, Barnstable, MA
2010 From the heART, PCC, Falmouth Art Center, Falmouth, MA
2010 Cape Cod Viewfinders: People, Orleans, MA
2009 Sixth Annual Snap to Grid, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Cape Cod Viewfinders: Landscape 1st Place Orleans, MA
2009 Women in Print, Juried Exhibition, Bunker Hill Community College, Boston, MA
2009 33rd Greater Lynn International Color Exhibition, Juried Exhibition, Lynn, MA
2009 Members’ Juried – January Exhibition, PAAM, Provincetown, MA
2009 Pixel Perfect: Art Created Digitally, Juried Exhibition, Duxbury Art Association, Duxbury,
One of the criticisms of digital art is that there isn't a uniqueness to it because each image can be printed over and over. Primarily a realist photographer, I strive to take digital image-making to a hands-on level by combining photography with transfer printmaking. Beginning with Raw negatives—or increasingly, iPhone images—I blend base photographs with scanned art and textures. My workstation includes a graphics tablet and stylus—a tool that behaves like a real pen or paintbrush. My digital images merge art and technology in an attempt to balance time spent at the computer with creative, messy, unpredictable, variable-ridden, play activity.
Barbara Ford Doyle
Barbara Ford Doyle
Leon Electric
Prints on Paper
Using DASS™ film as a carrier, transfer prints have a richness you don't get from straight inkjet printing—unexpected "lift-off" on rough surfaces, soft muted imagery on waterleaf and Japanese papers. Transfers to limestone paper have a fluid appearance similar to Polaroid emulsion transfers where the "skin" can be stretched and reshaped.
Sunrise: September 25, 2012, is a fifteen print installation for Making Waves, the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod's exhibition presented with younger artists in mind. I didn't set out to take any "serious" photos—no DSLR camera, no tripod, no cable release, no plan other than to let my dog run with his pal, Bugzie. My iPhone rang...Bugzie couldn't make it. No matter. I headed down the stairs at Lighthouse Beach and unclipped my dog's leash. Off he ran along the sloped, low-tide sand, the sky getting brighter. iPhone still in hand, I clicked on Hipstamatic, selected John S lens and Kodot XGrizzled film. At one minute intervals, I recorded the rising sun from several positions along the beach...not just the sun, but the Atlantic making unforgettable waves. I could have returned another morning with my "serious" equipment. But I never would recapture Sunrise: September 25, 2012.
Prints on Metal
I used my iPhone camera to document the series LA Wedding—a social situation most of us have been invited to witness. There are two narrative elements: the interaction of guests and the photographer's point of view. People don't care if you're taking pictures of them with your iPhone, because they don't think you're serious. I wouldn't have gotten these images with a DSLR camera. Images are transfer printed onto copper. Reflected light is integral to the presentation.
Wharfs, Docks, and Piers is a series of transfer prints on oxidized aluminum.The plates are sanded and "pickled" to create an aged effect reminiscent of 19th century tintypes.
