Artist as Naturalist
Barbara Barrett’s subjects have included cattle, rocks, bones, koi fish, swans, water plants, pigeons, pears, camellias. Straightforward and direct; akin to nature itself; her work portrays the natural world caught elegantly poised, if only for a fleeting instant. Dignified and grand or dark and foreboding, Barrett’s reveals the natural world as if it almost appears to have posed for a formal portrait. Yet within this captured moment, glints life’s steadfast progress and time ever fleeting.
