Barb's Art - Barb's Art

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Wayne Walking Meditation

Wayne Codling was a Zen Monk for 30 years and spent many years at the San Francisco Zen Centre and Green Gulch Where he meditated with the likes of Thich Nhat Hanh and Gil Fronsdale A few years ago he left the monastery and came to Victoria. Barb met him...

$ 15.00 - $ 300.00

Ministry of Peace and Reconstruction: Nepal

In 2007, The Government of Nepal took a giant step forward, becoming the second nation in the world to create a cabinet level position responsible for Peace. The “Ministry of Peace and Reconstruction: Nepal” was painted to celebrate this extraordinary achievement. Prints of this painting are to be presented to...

$ 15.00 - $ 400.00

Japanese Lady Delegate for Peace Dancing in the Street

In 2006, Barb and Leo Barb attended the Second Global Summit for the Creation of Ministries for Peace and Departments of Peace. On the first day of the summit, the delegates went in to town for an evening of cultural events. At one stop, almost the entire global summit spontaneously...

$ 200.00 - $ 1,875.00

Eating is a Beautiful Thing

“They said they were hungry” to which I responded, “It seems to me that hungry people should eat.” She looked at me, held up her hands and showed a bill and some coins and with a quiet voice said, “I need $2.63 more for a meal – can you help...

$ 15.00 - $ 10,000.00

Snaggly Clouds

My favorite place to be is on the breakwater. Out there, near the lighthouse, I can take a deep breath… and life, with all its diversity of experience, seems to come together. This water connects to the water that connects to countries all over the world… I can breathe in...

$ 0.00 - $ 900.00

Pineapple Fields

When Barb found out that pineapples grow in Jamaica, she decided to paint something to do with them. She researched how they grow and found out that the grow on the tops of stalks – like thistles! Who knew! She came across a picture of a pineapple field and knew...

$ 15.00 - $ 675.00

The Wishing Well in the Yard

Barb wrote:This is my friend Doug’s parents house in Nova Scotia. Whenever they take family pictures they take them outdoors in front of the wishing well. I have been looking at pictures of him and his family in front of the wishing well for years. I thought they would really...

$ 150.00 - $ 10,000.00

Meditate

Barb wrote: As I sit, I see the sea. Funny; This painting is very much about the sea and yet you can not see a drop of it in this painting . . . I think that meditation, silence, prayerful peacefulness, whatever you may want to call it, is one...

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Drum Moon: Earth Air Fire Water

In December of 2005, Barb and I visited the Sliamon First Nation, just north of Powell River. I took part in a sweat there and we both spent several days in the home of a native Elder. While we were there, we got to speak at some length with this...

$ 15.00 - $ 350.00

Koi One

This is the first of two paintings of Koi that spontaneously arose in the spring of 2008. While Barb likes koi, she has no particular affinity for them. However, her daughter loves pets and has several tanks of fish. Perhaps it is a local restaurant which has a very large...

$ 150.00 - $ 350.00

Raven and Goldfish

Barb’s friend who is a teacher (see Barb’s journal) has a fish and bird (mostly heron) theme in his house. He mentioned that he would like a picture with both a fish and a bird in it. Barb had just painted “Adobe” a painting that she really enjoyed doing. She...

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Empty Chairs

When Barb was a young lass, she had the good fortune to meet Pierre and Elizabeth. These people became surrogate parents for her. Pierre got sick and was dying when Barb got a notice that Elizabeth had died. She was so expecting that it would be Pierre that it took...

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Royalty Aliens Harvest Bi-Plane

This is Barb’s second abstract. It emerged right on the heels of the first. It shares a lot of similarities but already she is moving away from linear solids and becoming more freeform. This unusual name comes from the four different views depending on which way you hang the painting....

$ 125.00 - $ 300.00

Abstract #5

This is the fifth of five abstract paintings that emerged in a row at during the late summer in 2007. Location of Original: Available for Purchase Acrylic on Canvas 8” by 24” 2007 This is the fifth of five abstract paintings that emerged in a row at during the late...

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Astronomy

All of a sudden, Barb has started to paint abstracts. This is her first one. This painting is unique as it still retains the linear nature of some of her earlier work but that linearity starts to break down with the very next painting. There is not wrong orientation to...

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Dots

This is the fourth of five abstract paintings that emerged in a row at during the late summer in 2007. This painting is about balance. Barb focused on creating and keeping a balance during the entire painting process and is very happy with how it turned out. Location of Original:...

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Three Pink Flowers #1

Barb painted this as a gift to say thank you. She wrote a dedication on the back. This is what it says . . .I wrote this in my journal today: “I like the new painting. I am giving it to the lady who has been giving me blood tests...

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Breathe

Barb wrote: A Friend offered to share some of her art supplies – paint, brushes . . . When I asked her what I could do to say thank you, she asked if I could paint her a painting that was about breathing. She has asthma quite badly so breathing...

$ 200.00 - $ 450.00

Study

This is your humble web designer, Leo, studying HTML and web design at the dining room table. On the table are salt and pepper shakers, a trivet and place mats from the home of Pierre and Elizabeth. Above Leo’s head is a basket that Barb painted years ago. Behind him,...

$ 150.00 - $ 675.00

Lamp

When I first started to acquire the stuff of a future home as a teenager, I saw this lamp shade in a store and immediately liked it very much. I still live with it, actually. One day I was looking at it and thinking of how it would be to...