In and around Herefordshire is a delight. The countryside changes between the mountains and valleys of the Black Mountains and Malvern Hills and between May Hill and Ludlow. Through her paintings and cards, Barbara has tried to record some aspects of the scenery, the farming (Hereford Cattle, Hop Picking and Sheep farming) and some buildings and Cathedrals of the Three Counties.

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 Barbara maintained her interest in art at home developing watercolour and mixed media techniques. A further course at Hereford College of Art studying painting developed and broadened her interests. The earliest work shown here, Tomatoes, is from that time. As a furniture designer Barbara was used to working in pencil and the four pencil drawings are early works. Colour was added as in the Ironbridge Reflections and in the small Hereford Cathedral through Victoria Bridge but drawing was the basis of many works. She now work mainly in watercolour and the pencil marks are of less importance.

Several of the originals of the card designs are shown and the main part of the gallery has a permanent display of the pictures, cards, prints and mats.

Barbara takes great pleasure from the countryside and enjoy 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 Barbara to start entering paintings in local and regional exhibitions. To date these have included exhibiting in the Shire hall 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.

Barbara has regularly exhibited her work at The Old Mayor's Parlour in Hereford and in the last few years has been with The Malvern Artists and currently with The Malvern Hills Gallery in Malvern and The Guild of Herefordshire Craftsmen.