78 year old artist, Barbara Steinberg, in her Crouch End Studio
- Credit: Richard Gardner
Crouch End artist Barbara Hope Steinberg spent the past year creating a series of abstract landscapes in response to the pandemic.
Inspired by her daily outings along The Parkland Walk, the oils which make up In Time of Plague have names such as Solstice , A Walk in April , and The First of Spring .
All were painted in her garden studio. A lot of people found lockdown paralysed them, but it was exactly the opposite for me, she says. It had a curious effect on me, I started working at the beginning of lockdown almost every day. In many ways it s a continuation of the work I have done foryears - based on landscape, times of day, and times of the year. But the emotional context has dictated and altered what I do. The subject is really the pandemic, it has to be the subject for us all. I don t think any of us could avoid that but I was fortunate I could work in response t