BARRY PETERSON Artist and Architect, Barry Peterson has been focusing lately on working with the etching press and on still life drawing done on location in local restaurants and pubs, after spending many years working from the human figure in the studio. The moody and ancient atmospheres from printmaking are a natural for Barry. Leslie and Barry have been perfecting a non-traditional printing technique on their etching press called ìXerox Transferî. Barry has also been producing copper plate etchings using various traditional techniques and thereby producing some very thickly atmospheric works. After being and apprentice architect Barry and Leslie are both very active in their communityñespecially on projects that involve improvements to the visual character of their town. The Industrial Center Building (ICB) where studio 300A resides, is an old ship-building structure on the Sausalito waterfront in the historic ìMarinshipî district, built by Bechtel and Henry Kaiser in 1942 for the production of Liberty Ships and other war vessels. For decades, the building has been home to over 100 artists, 90 of which will be participating in the 40th WINTER OPEN STUDIOS event on the first weekend of December this year. Studio 300A is a great hub for these events.
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