Although medicine was her career, art has always been Barbara's avocation since childhood. Presently she is making contemporary silver jewelry, and painting landscapes/plein aire in oils and abstracts in acrylics, oil and cold wax, and mixed media. She used to paint Chinese watercolor on rice paper but currently uses the rice paper in her contemporary mixed media works.
She studied jewelry making with Charles Newton-Brain at MICA and Beth Carey and Debbie Weaver at the Delaplaine Visual Arts Center. She studied painting with Skip Lawrence, Lori Putnam, Walt Bartman, Claire Carnell, Robert Burridge, Calvin Edward Ramsburg, Tara Grim, Tony Couch, Robin Jacobs, Eloise Bralove, Robert Burridge, Mark Brockman, Paul Gallo, Paul Flurry, John Kachik , Quing Huang, Phil Starke, and Pamela Caughey and extensively on her own for many years.
She has exhibited at CALC in Carlisle, and the ACAC gallery, Just Jennifer's , and Gallery 30 in Gettysburg, The Artists' Gallery in Frederick, The Hagerstown Art League Gallery, The Spirited Ladies, the Delaplaine gallery in Frederick, Md. and recently at Andalusia in Carlisle. She was juried into the ACAC juried show at Schmucker's Hall in 2009, 2010, 2013, and 2020 as well as several Delaplaine Visual Arts Center shows in Frederick, MD. Solo shows include the Parrot in Gettysburg (2014, 2019), the UCC in Gettysburg, The Foundry in Carlisle and the ACAC main gallery in Gettysburg,
