*New work coming Spring 2025*

Barb Walker is a Signature Member of the American Impressionist Society and Associate Member of the Oil Painters of America. She says “Painting has given voice to the moments or places that capture something inside me. I am naturally prone to being in the moment. Whether at my easel, maybe in a meadow working quickly, laying down color on a canvas, or scouting a country road to find that place and time when the light brings to life a field or house. Sometimes the sun streaming through a window stops me in my tracks while walking through a room. It's in those moments that something stirs in me that just may spark the next painting.
“Much of my growth as a painter comes from putting in daily time at my easel. Harder to quantify are years of observing life - the turn of a creek through a field, standing at the edge of a marsh scanning the horizon for a flight of swans, or walking through the woods pushing leaves aside to uncover wildflowers. I seem to be hard-wired to 'live in the present' with an overwhelming urge to not miss those fleeting gifts in the busyness of life. I learn so much from workshops, books, magazines, podcasts, and videos. What a great time to be a painter - such an endless array of resources!
“Regular trips to the coast of Maine inspire much of what I love to paint. Between the ocean, the coast, the villages, and the galleries - it has a deep hold on me.”