After many years of sandwiching art in and around a career in computers and raising a family, Barbara now has enough time to experiment with different media and styles. Part of the "sandwiching" was studying at Brookhaven Community College and Collin County Community College in the Dallas, Texas area.

Since moving to Mena, Arkansas at the end of 1998, she has continued studies with a variety of workshops and classes. She has been steadily moving away from realism toward a looser, more impressionistic style

Most of her work is in either oil or Prismacolor pencils, but pen and ink, graphite, acrylics, and watercolor provide variety. Subjects And the quest for moving the vision in her head to paper or canvas is always there.