Bobbi Baldwin paints her subject much like a sculptor works with marble, sculpting with every paint stroke the distinctions that make true beauty or strength so apparent.   Getting to know her subjects, while she paints, allows her to create the truest portraits.  She has the opportunity to experience their inner personalities so that her hand and brush work freely to express what her mind perceives.  Her deep knowledge and love of people leads her to capture the real person, so that they are portrayed as who they are at their most comfortable moments.  A quality portrait comes only from a feeling of comfort with the artist.

Everyone has a certain depth of character that shows in his or her features.  What makes Bobbi Baldwin’s portraits stand out is her ability to see within and depict that character with ease.  Her cousin Mark Twain was capable of capturing character with words; Bobbi Baldwin captures her characters with paint strokes.  Ms. Baldwin’s highly developed style of academic realism, coupled with the use of contemporary colorist’s theories is a sheer delight to the eye.  Her ability to capture the likeness of her subject is undeniable.  Bobbi Baldwin’s paintings are found in many collections throughout the US.  She has taught hundreds of artists.  This love of unique and strong technical accuracy in artwork has garnered Ms. Baldwin Baldwin the highest degree of respect by her peers and the art world.  This respect has resulted in many honors, such as speaking and writing on contemporary classical realism as well as judging the work of her peers.

 

Her work has been strongly influenced by many of the great European, Russian, and French artists such as John Singer Sargent, Ivan Kramskoy, and Adolphe Bouguereau.  So respected is her work that she was selected to visit Russia in 1996 as part of the First delegation of American Artists to be invited to Russia.  Bobbi worked side by side with contemporary Russian artists and studied the work of the great 20^th century Classical Realism Russian Masters. 

 

 

 

 

 

1958 - present -- As a second generation Californian, in the midst of many new generations coming up, Bobbi enjoys the diversity of the world coming together in her state as well as around the world.  Many of her paintings depict the pleasure she finds in seeing the world and people, in her travels, and what makes society what it is, as well as her subjects.  Bali is her ultimate favorite, as she finds the people so extremely happy to be who they are, where they are, with what they have.