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Barbara’s landscape paintings are often about fleeting moments.which may deliver strong emotions that she responds with her voice—her brush; moments that occur in the sky or in a field when light causes a heart to beat faster.  

This is the place she strive to be in and bring to her canvas.  

The process begins outside where she works on an individual piece or series. She begins with small paint sketches that she works into larger pieces. In her studio she analyzes the formal elements of the painting and explores the union of abstraction and aesthetics.

Artistic goals: She works to reveal the beauty of nature and to find light and color that best illustrate beauty.  As Emerson observed, nature represents the world in its totality, from conception through the cycle of life. Transient light and ephemeral effects are at the heart of the nature of life, what she especially seeks to capture.

Most significant accomplishments:

Class Valedictorian, University of Hartford

Elected Member, Hudson Valley Art Association

Elected Member, Rockport Art Association

Elected Member, Academic Artists Association

Elected Member, Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts

Elected Member, Lyme Art Association

Reason to create art: Barbara’s intellectual and painterly life are united in a passion for nature. She is a philosophically direct descendant of the Old Lyme and American Hudson River School painters, and she approaches subjects in a way that embraces these traditions—honoring nature, seeking the paradise in nature and working from direct observation.