For Barbara, photography began as a means of exploration-- finding inspiration from the seen to uncover the  unseen.  From a meadow dotted with flowers and cascading  sheets of water to the musical colors of the carousel, her works sparks a frisson of unexpected discovery,  a bright new vision emerging from the everyday.

Barbara's use of the camera has a painterly stroke, with each image bringing us closer to the essence of the subject.  From childhood, she gravitated to flowers and the dreamy world of the garden and then to untrammeled settings in nature.  Photography is her tool to capture a wisp of beauty, to grab a tuft of fog, to keep dancing in that field of flowers long after dark and in the cold days of winter. She makes those magical, fleeting moments eternal.

The delight of her surroundings -- how light toys with the eye -- with the camera, is made permanent.  At first sight of the image rising to the surface of the paper in the darkroom, Barbara experienced that watershed moment ...  She knew then that making images would be her lifelong journey.

"Art is the act of faith, trusting the senses and the imagination, turning the conscious mind fluid, drawing from the knowledge of the body, relying on impulse and the right action.  Laying out the evidence, looking for the hair on the back of my neck to rise."

Timothy Hawksworth