Fine Art

7850 Winding Way

Fair Oaks, CA 95628

916 488-3900 studio/home

Bobbi@BaldwinFineArt.com

Bobbi M. Baldwin

Portfolio viewable at: BaldwinFineArt.com

PORTRAIT ARTIST -- Classically Trained Contemporary Realist:

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.  Bobbi Baldwin has always been drawn to people and animals as her subject for her paintings. Her first award in art was received in kindergarten.  Throughout her school years she continually worked to improve her skills on the human anatomy, studying from any and all sources available to her.  Bobbi began drawing commission portraits in graphite, in 1982 and in oil in 1984.  Her most notable work is now in the collection of Judge William B. Shubb, Chief Judge of the Federal Courts, Sacramento, CA and Bobby Jackson, NBA.

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. Bobbi 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.

BUSINESS Experience:        

Strong organizational, leadership, teaching abilities: 

Created continual and short term art showings, judging, mediation, counsel, inspirational counsel, technical art teacher, marketing art teacher, and all realms of business management: 

Owner/Director of Bobbi Baldwin Gallery, Fair Oaks, CA. Oct. 1, 1997 - Feb. 28, 2001, Owner / Artist in Residence, Bobbi Baldwin’s Portraits -Studio and Gallery- Sacramento, Oct. 1994-1997, Member of the American Society of Portrait Artists, Portrait Society of America, Sacramento Fine Arts Center, and Founder & Signature member of the West Coast Society of Portrait artists.  Originator of Sacramento’s first ever “Preserving Our Heritage” All Portrait Show, April 29, - May 5, 1995, Chairperson “Preserving Our Heritage II” 1997 and “Preserving Our Heritage IV” 1999, and the co-chairperson for “Preserving Our Heritage III, V & National show “Pres. Our Heritage” VI.  In addition, Ms. Bobbi Baldwin was honored to judge the following shows:  “Diversity of Spirit” Sacramento, 1998, & “Realistic Visions I” 1999, and  “FALL CARRIAGE -Exhibit & Art Show” SEPT. 2001, Valley Art Assoc. - From 2006 -2008 CFO/Secretary of Stamm Koechlein Family Foundation. 

TEACHING Experience:      

Contemporary Realist Fine Art:   

California State Certified 2004  Ms. Bobbi Baldwin began teaching privately in October of 1995 to the present.  She has taught hundreds of students during her career.  As a traveling teacher, workshops have begun in Sonora, Texas. Most classes are adults, but, she also, has been a teacher in the children’s outreach program through the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission.  Her work is now available in a currently unpublished book of 100+ pages (produced for teaching) and series of 11 DVDs. 

EDUCATION Experience:   

Her work has been strongly influenced by many of the great European, Russian, and French artists such as John Singer Sargent, Ilya Repin, 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 artist and studied the work of the great 20^th century Classical Realism Russian masters.  The artist attributes her style and abilities to her high level of observation.  She has spent many hours studying from life and the work of the Masters. Although Bobbi is mostly self taught, she has studied with the following teachers:  David Simon, Nelson Shanks, Igor Babailov, Thomas Nash, Graig Cropper, Vivian Sun, Gary Pruner, Melinda Barbara, Marcia Cary, Pam Maddock, Jack Neilson, and Valerie Stewart.  Bobbi attended the American Society of Portrait Artists (ASOPA) 1995 & 1996 Portraits Festivals in Montgomery, Alabama, and the Portrait Society of America 1999, Virginia -where she listened and learned for hours from such talents as: John Howard Sanden, Raymond Kinstler, Nelson Shanks, William Draper, Daniel Greene, Burton Silverman, Thomas Nash, Richard Whitney, Bart Lindstrom, Michael Del Priore, Connie Belleau Adams, Edward Jonas, and Gordon Wetmore.  In Sept. of 1996, Bobbi was honored to be one of five Americans, Alan Banks, Holly Patrick Banks, Carl Samson, Steve Levin, Carol Cyrene, and one Canadian Igor Babailov -which became the first delegation of American & Canadian Artists ever to be invited to Russia.  This extraordinary opportunity lasted for three weeks where she studied from the masterful museum work and also painted and showed with the American and Russian Artists.  The delegation created a union between the artists of America, Canada, & Russia.

Articles Published: 

American Society of Portrait Artists’ Signature Magazine, ASOPA in San Francisco, fall 1999 and American Society Of Portrait Artists - Professional’s Inside Tips - Turning California’s Portrait Market Around, Jan. 1998.

American Society of Portrait Artist’s Signature Magazine, Walking With Our Heroes and Uniting the West Coast, Special Issue, 2001 Portrait Arts Festival Review

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