Barbara Ursel
Artist | Ottawa, Canada

Barbara Ursel is an award-winning contemporary Canadian painter of urban landscapes – not as subjects to be documented, but as inspiration for exploring perception, memory, light and atmosphere. A particular place may initially inspire her but, as she paints, recognizable places move toward abstraction. Barbara is interested in what happens when a familiar place becomes something more ambiguous, atmospheric and personal and no longer simply a particular place. Her paintings invite sustained contemplation, entice viewers to enter into them and, perhaps, recognize something of their own experience. 

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