"Spirit in Color" painting

Artist: Virginia Stonebarger
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Panel
Dimensions:  12" x 16" (unframed)

In this luminous and energetically composed painting, Virginia Stonebarger renders a church or mission-style chapel in bold, vibrant color and expressive abstraction. The building’s arched entryway and central steeple are grounded in recognizable form, but the surroundings dissolve into a whirlwind of radiant brushstrokes—purples, blues, ochres, and fiery reds—that evoke both spiritual warmth and emotional intensity. Stonebarger’s modernist influences and dynamic palette turn this architectural subject into something almost transcendent—part place, part feeling, part memory.