After raising her two children and moving to New Hampshire, where she and her husband currently make their home, she is fulfilling her life-long dream of being able to devote most of her time to painting. With oil paints her selected medium, Barbara paints four to six hours each day, creating scenes from her imagination rather than painting specific places.

A self-taught artist in the true Folk tradition, she paints what she knows and loves best: country scenes with children and animals frolicking, people working their farms surrounded by stone walls, barns, covered bridges, hills and ponds, coastal harbors. Paying meticulous attention to line, form, detail and color, her paintings exude a sense of joy and represent cherished memories of her life growing up in the country.