About the Artist

Barbara is elected to the Copley Society of Art,  Hudson Valley Art Association, Lyme Art Association and Rockport Art Association.  She is also juried member of the Academic Artists Association and the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts.  She is a signature member of New England Plein Air Painters.   Her work has been chosen for the 2010 Springfield Art Museum, Academic Art Association Invitational Exhibition. She has served as Curator for the Lyme Art Association New England landscape invitational show for several years and membership and exhibition juror for the Rockport Art Association, as well as juror for various exhibitions.  Her work is published in Great Day Trips to Connecticut’s Critical Habitats. She has taught plein air painting privately and through various educational institutions, including the Lyme Art Association, where she served as president of the Board of Directors.  Her work has been selected by the American ambassador for exhibition at the American Embassy in Taipei, Taiwan.

Barbara holds a B.F.A. degree with high honors from the University of Hartford, where she studied with Rudolph Zallinger and Paul Zimmerman.  She also studied at Ringling School of Art, Hartford College for Women, and Lyme Academy.  Her work has been exhibited throughout New England and internationally and she  has served on various juries in New England.  She is represented in a number of corporate and private collections and has won numerous awards, including 2024 Best in Show Madison Art Society, Lyme Art Association, 3rd Place, 2 and painting awards 2024, and the 2023 Academic Artists Association high award in painting, the 2023 Rockport Art Association and the Lyme Art Association painting award. In 2022 Lyme Art Association annual elected artists painting award, the 2019 Rockport Art Association's Donald Allen Mosher gold medal and award for excellence in traditional oil painting, the 2019 Rockport Art Association's Aldro Hibbard memorial award for outstanding landscape, the Connecticut Academy of Fine Art painting award, the Rockport Art Association awards For excellence in painting on numerous exhibitions,  the Academic Artist Association painting award, the Hudson Valley Art Association's Isabella W. Steinschneider award. In 2018,  numerous paintings  were awarded top 15% distinction by the Jury for the Fine Art Views painting competition.  Snow Light in Vermont was awarded first place at the 2011 Tolland Art Center exhibition.  Morning Fog received second place at the Monson Art Association. Passing Storm was awarded 2012 best in show at the Tolland Art Association exhibition.  Harbor Lights was awarded the 2013 Tolland Art Center's Rubino award.   Pleasant Valley received the Bernard Corey award at the Academic Artists Association. She received a painting award in  2022 for the Lyme Art Association Elected Artist Annual Exhibition.

 Barbara is a philosophically direct descendant of the Old Lyme and the American Hudson River School painters, and approaches her subject in a way that embraces these traditions- honoring nature and working from direct observation.  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 wonder of the sea while roaming the coastline of Nahant, Massachusetts as a child.    She followed her father to the warmer waters of Florida, where he fished and boated and she attended the Ringling School of Art.   Later, she explored the South Pacific coastline, where she was sometimes dropped by helicopter on uninhabited islands to paint pink rocks and turquoise waters.  Currently she lives in East Haddam, Connecticut.