“I am committed to the notion that art is a form of communication that makes us human. Since the dawn of time, we have communicated the beauty and challenges of our environments in visual terms.”

About 10 years ago Tracy Baker-White started working seriously on landscapes in oil. She begins most of her paintings with brushy sketches; underpainting surfaces with orange or purple to provide unexpected color combinations in the paintings, and to enrich the layers of color painted on top. She often works in series, doing three or four pieces in succession exploring the same motif. She uses a lot of strong brushwork in her paintings, and in some cases the brushstrokes become a part of the subject matter. “My objective,” she says, “is not to recreate realism, but rather to represent an interpretation of reality that is particular to my own vision.”

In college Tracy Baker-White fulfilled the requirements for both studio and art history and then worked for 20 years as a museum educator and arts administrator, learning about world art and how it has played a part in human history. Her paintings have been exhibited in solo shows at the Berkshire Medical Center, Pittsfield, MA, the Tunnel City Coffee/The Harrison Gallery in Williamstown, MA and the Southern Vermont Arts Center, as well as exhibitions throughout the United States.

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