About Annette Bartlett-Golden
Using crisp lines and vibrant colors, Annette Bartlett-Golden imparts a sense of immediacy, vivacity and optimism to her paintings in oils and watercolor. While her first love is depicting landscapes of places both near and far away, she also paints animals, flowers and people. Her interest in light and figurative subjects has grown, and she plans to more deeply explore theses subjects in future.
Much of Annette’s work has been influenced by her surroundings, including the woods and park near her house, as well as trips to the Blue Ridge Mountains and visiting family and friends in different part of the world, and trips abroad. Gardens have always been sources of inspiration, and the artist’s flower garden has provided many models for her floral paintings.
Inspired at age three to pick up a brush and paint in oils (on her grandfather’s painting for a client), Annette did not begin formal instruction in oil painting until age seventeen, when she enrolled in a class at the Fayetteville Museum of Art in North Carolina. Until that time, she experimented with a children’s set of Crayola watercolors, painting greeting cards for her family and thus developing an affection for the often tricky and frustrating medium of watercolor. She studied art/art education, concentrating in oil painting, at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, graduating with a B.F.A. She has been an artist and teacher for over 20 years.
Annette’s paintings have been exhibited locally and are in collections both in the United States and abroad. She is a member of Associated Artists of Winston-Salem, Muddy River Art Association, and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.
Much of Annette’s work has been influenced by her surroundings, including the woods and park near her house, as well as trips to the Blue Ridge Mountains and visiting family and friends in different part of the world, and trips abroad. Gardens have always been sources of inspiration, and the artist’s flower garden has provided many models for her floral paintings.
Inspired at age three to pick up a brush and paint in oils (on her grandfather’s painting for a client), Annette did not begin formal instruction in oil painting until age seventeen, when she enrolled in a class at the Fayetteville Museum of Art in North Carolina. Until that time, she experimented with a children’s set of Crayola watercolors, painting greeting cards for her family and thus developing an affection for the often tricky and frustrating medium of watercolor. She studied art/art education, concentrating in oil painting, at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, graduating with a B.F.A. She has been an artist and teacher for over 20 years.
Annette’s paintings have been exhibited locally and are in collections both in the United States and abroad. She is a member of Associated Artists of Winston-Salem, Muddy River Art Association, and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.