Bobbie Salthouse

has been interested in art—in one way or another— her whole life, and has studied art history, painting, drawing, graphic design and advertising. In addition to working professionally as a graphic designer for many years, she has exhibited her acrylic paintings on canvas and paper at the Foundry Gallery, Touchstone Gallery, Strathmore Art Center, Bryn Mawr College, the Art Directors’ Club of NY and the Yellow Barn Gallery. Salthouse makes use of typography, handwriting, or unreadable “pseudo-handwriting” and improvised scratching in her paintings, as a counterpoint to the structured type, which is central to her graphic design. Another technique she employs a process of editing out areas of the paintings, revealing unexpected “micro-compositions.” Most recently she has been exploring the magical properties of painting on silk. She finds sources of inspiration everywhere: from her interest in foreign languages, all things Italian, love of nature and being outdoors, sailing, the world of childhood and play, Klimt, Klee, Folon, Steinberg, the craftsmen of the Tuareg and the whole art historical cosmos.