Barbara Holds a BFA degree from the University of Hartford. She has also studied at Ringling School of Art, Hartford College for Women and Lyme Academy. Her work has bee exhibited throughout New England and internationally. She is represented in a number of corporate and private collections and has won numerous awards, recently including a painting award from the Academic Artist Association, the Painting Award from the Connecticut Academy of Fine Art and the Spring 2006 Award for Excellence in Painting from the Rockport Art Association. She has taught plein air painting privately and through various educational institutions and the Lyme Art Association, where she is an elected member and serves on the board. She is a Signature member of New England Plein Air Painters currently serving as President, and is elected to the Rockport Art Association. She is also a member of Oil Painters of America and was accepted to the Eastern Regional Exhibition. She is a juried member of Academic Artists Association and Landscape International. She is a philosophically direct descendant of the American Hudson River and Old Lyme painters. Barbara approaches her subject in a way that embraces these traditions working from direct observation and honoring nature. Her landscapes explore the romance of color and light and have been described as “poetry”. The daughter of a consummate fisherman and boater, Barbara experienced the mysteries and wonders of the sea while roaming the coastline of Nahant, Massachusetts as a child. She followed her father to warmer waters of Florida where everyday was a fishing/boating for him while she drew boats in the harbor for spending money and attending the Ringling School of Art. Later a three year adventure brought exploration of the South Pacific Coastline, Waters and Islands, sometimes being dropped off by helicopter on uninhabited islands to paint the pink rocks and turquoise waters. At the hands of her mother she learned the wild flowers and trees that forested New England. Barbara can be seen painting the coast of New England and the mountains of Vermont on any given day in any type of weather.

Wilderness Oil on linen       22 x 28
Dressed in Gold Oil on linen       26 x 28
January Thaw Oil on linen       24 x 30

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