Working in watercolor, gouache, oils and digital medium as well as photography, Don Barnett shows primarily in Seattle and Los Angeles and lives in the heavily wooded countryside East of Seattle WA between the Cascades and the sea. The works have been displayed at the Seattle Art Museum as well as in the Calix Art Gallery Downtown Seattle. Projects include conceptual work for Dreamworks games, design and children's book illustration for Microsoft, and animating the drawings of Leonardo da’ Vinci for the award winning interactive title by Corbis.



Why do I make art:

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Working in watercolor, gouache, oils and digital medium as well as photography, Don Barnett shows primarily in Seattle and Los Angeles and lives in the heavily wooded countryside East of Seattle WA between the Cascades and the sea. The works have been displayed at the Seattle Art Museum as well as in the Calix Art Gallery Downtown Seattle. Projects include conceptual work for Dreamworks games, design and children's book illustration for Microsoft, and animating the drawings of Leonardo da’ Vinci for the award winning interactive title by Corbis.



Why do I make art:

Somewhere between the spirit and the natural world, between God and science, is the Ideal, found in the overlooked everyday details. I work the way I do because I feel immersed in the matrix of life, whether it is a flurry of plankton moving around me in the sea or a cloud of cottonwood seeds floating by, life is everywhere, thriving, moving, coursing, like a Van Gogh sky, so I am compelled to capture it!