Barb's Art - Barb's Art

$ 150.00 - $ 2,000.00

Tulips and Daffodills

Barb has been producing art with children since long before she even started to call herself an artist. One day, Barb, Leo and two of his children, Luke and Aja all painted a group canvas. Barb’s part was some bright flowers against a bright blue background. She enjoyed painting with...

$ 25.00 - $ 1,000.00

Gift Certificate

Want to give a present of beautiful art? Don’t know which painting to give? Take the terror out of choosing by giving the gift of choice. Barb’s Art gift certificates can include a personal note to your special person. Your certificate can be mailed to you or your special person.

$ 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...

$ 15.00 - $ 900.00

Jamaican Lady Selling Cashews by the Road

The sky in the header for the web site is taken from this painting. Barb really enjoyed painting this one. Barb’s friend who owns the Jamaican restaurant here in Victoria, showed her a photograph of a lady selling cashew by the side of the road. She was struck by the...

$ 150.00 - $ 900.00

Jamaican Bay

Barb is crazy about palm trees. She loves them. We do have some palm trees here in Victoria but it is not hot here and she does not rave about them. I think what she really likes palm trees + heat. Anyway, she painted some palm trees for her friend...

$ 150.00 - $ 5,000.00

Flowers and Sky

This painting is extremely subtle and complex. Unfortunately, the web does not do this justice. It is truly a stunning image. This is one of Barb’s earlier works. The way she does her sky foreshadows her successes with other blocks such as the concrete on the breakwater in “Snaggly Clouds”...

$ 150.00 - $ 375.00

Three Pink Flowers #2

The lady Barb gave “Three Pink Flowers #1” enjoyed the first one so much that she said “If you ever paint another one . . .”. So Barb kept her eyes out for more pink flowers to paint. One day she saw some pink flowers that she really liked and...

$ 150.00 - $ 350.00

Serenity on the Bus

One day, when Barb was taking the bus, she was struck by the complete serenity of the woman in front of her. This woman had a child who was not having a good day. Barb thinks that she may have had a tooth ache or something like that. The child...

$ 15.00 - $ 350.00

A Visit to Craigdarroch Castle®

Barb wrote this about this painting:A friend of mine came from the mainland with her daughter to visit Victoria. She loves castles and has pictures and statues of them in her home but had never been to one before.It was such fun to see her face as she walked through...

$ 150.00 - $ 600.00

Snowy Mountain

Barb worked very hard on a painting for quite a few days and when she was finished, she thought “I should clean up”. Instead, this image spontaneously emerged in only a few hours. Apparently, it had been waiting to come out. Barb does not know where it came from. It...

$ 150.00 - $ 400.00

Pierre on His Death Bed

Barb spent a lot of time with Pierre over the last four months of his life. On his last night, she could see that he was about to die. She laid her head beside his on the pillow and cried where he could not see. The two care aid workers...

$ 150.00 - $ 525.00

Creating the World

Barb loves to play the didgeridoo. She plays it as a drone, similar to the drones Tibetan monks play. She uses it as a form of meditation and to set up vibrations in her own body. In this painting, Barb was showing how she was visioning/creating a whole new world...

$ 150.00 - $ 1,375.00

Adobe

Barb visited san Luis Ibispo, California, several years ago. She was quite impressed with all of the public art. And apparently, several buildings there have some amazing mosaics on them. She became attracted to the mosaic style and decided to try it in this painting. As you can see from...

$ 200.00 - $ 900.00

Dancing in the Sky

This lively painting is about heat and work. Carrying good while the heat rises and makes the hills waver and the clouds dance in the sky.Barb has undertaken the painting of several canvases as a fundraiser for the Canadian Harabee Education Society program in Tanzania.Sadly, for large parts of Africa,...

$ 150.00 - $ 375.00

Greenhouse

Barb’s friend who is a teacher (see Barb’s Journal) has three people living with him. One of them is an amazing gardener. He is an expert on dahlias and he enters his dahlias in the flower show every year.Barb has gone into the home several times over the years while...

$ 150.00 - $ 350.00

Würdemann's Heron

Barb’s friend who is a teacher (see Barb’s journal) really likes herons. He has quite a nice collection of them. Barb had recently been to the Florida Keys and while she was there, she saw a lot of herons – including the Würdemann’s Heron. Würdemann’s Herons are named after the...

$ 25.00 - $ 900.00

Two Herons

Barb has a real love of herons and has painted several. She painted this painting at a friends’ house. When she was done, one of her friends came around the corner and gasped with delight at the flowers and the colours. This reaction and her explaining her delight has given...

$ 2.00

Giclee Sample

The best way to understand how good a giclée is, is to see a good one. We recommend that you go to a gallery, an art dealer or a custom framer and ask to see a giclée there. They will be able to show you one and tell you about...

$ 150.00 - $ 300.00

Banana Flower

In her search of things Jamaican, Barb decided to do something with bananas. She discovered that the banana flower is HUGE —easily as large as a bunch of bananas in the store. She saw pictures of flowers with bananas above but wondered “where do the bananas come from?” Days of...