Artist Statement

I currently live and create on the north shore of Long Island. I was born in Dublin, Ireland and spent my childhood surrounded by the brilliant colors of the Irish landscape and sky. My father was an aerospace engineer and took a job with Grumman so we relocated to Long Island when I was in my teens. My mother was a painter and a writer who influenced and encouraged my direction into the visual arts.

Over the years I have explored many different art forms, from drawing, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, weaving and more. I always felt that I would end up painting but it took some loss of family during the pandemic to realize that there is really only now, it was time to begin oil painting.

The amazing skies over the north shore, present the most stunning of images which have greatly influenced my current series of oil paintings. Color and its vibrational energy and the interrelationships of color is currently the subject of my work. Contemporary realism is my chosen genre and I make a deliberate choice to create representational images that are familiar. I also enjoy the curiosity of depicting fabric and pattern in my work and think they serve as an excellent vehicle for creating art. I am also interested in composition and personal perspective.

I like to look at amazing or colorful skies and  become completely involved in the forms, shadows, colors and vastness. When we create and look at art we transcend our subjective worlds and experience it on a deeper, more elevated and emotional level. It connects us in our experiences.

Artist’s Biography

Jacqueline DuBarry is currently an art instructor in the Middle Country School District on Long Island where her classes range from elementary to high school. She came to the United States from Ireland in her teens. She earned her BFA in Fine Art from School of Visual Arts and graduated with honors with a Master of Science in Secondary Art Education from Queens College. 

She has participated in many juried and gallery shows. She taught a major class in sculpture at Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts (now called Usdan Summer Camp for the Arts) from 1998-2015 where she explored materials, subjects and genres both conventional and unconventional.

Ms. DuBarry developed and implemented a course in Sculpture for Cartooning and Animation for Hofstra School of Continuing Education as part of their portfolio program in cartooning and animation. Over the past few years Ms. DuBarry has served as a board member for SCALA (Suffolk County Art Leaders Association) where she developed and taught several workshops for professional development for art teachers.

She continues to develop her work and personal style in contemporary realism, currently working with oil painting.