Barbara has a lifelong interest in art and design having studied at Brighton College of Art in 1963 and at Leeds College of Art and Design for a further three years. She graduated with a Diploma in Furniture Design and spent a few years with Design Workshop in Yorkshire and then the Architects Department in the London Borough of Hounslow.

Family intervened and she maintained her interest in art at home developing her water colour and mixed media techniques. A further foundation course at Hereford College of Art studying painting developed and broadened her interest.

She has great pleasure from the countryside and enjoys visiting and painting local scenes and country houses. Membership of the Hereford Painting Club has enabled her privileged access to many private estates.

A few early commissions painting country scenes and farm houses with other sales encouraged her to start entering paintings to local and regional exhibitions. To date these have included exhibiting in the Shirehall in Hereford during the Three Choirs Festival in the City, at the Royal West of England Academy, Summer Exhibition at Bristol, in the Post Graduate Medical Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, in Ludlow and other galleries mainly around Herefordshire. She has regularly exhibited all her work at The Old Mayors Parlour in Hereford and in the last few years has been with The Malvern Artists and currently with The Malvern Hills Gallery in Malvern.

In 1986 she started a small business to market her paintings and develop outlets for the prints, cards, cutting boards and mats which she is now having produced using the art work of some, of her paintings.