I like to make things.

I make art, jewelry, mosaics, dollhouse miniatures, and other crafty things. Colored pencils are my favorite medium and I enjoy working in ACEO size.

My work is signed with a symbol of an abstract bird in flight crossing the initial of my given name to represent art as the language of the soul grounded by earthly limitations. I like the way the symbol often blends in... perhaps because I see art as the message to stand on its own, the artist as the messenger.

BACKGROUND: By trade I was a Journeyman Tool & Die Maker. I learned how to do this artsy stuff at home, in the public school system, and at a branch campus of Kent State University.

I hope you enjoy my art as much as I enjoy making it.

~N. Barnes, July 25, 2009