…began her journey as an artist at age 3 with the encouragement of her grandmother.

The love of art continued while learning art history and drawing. During high schoolyears, Barbara received art instruction from James Boujikian, art director of West Point Military Academy. In 1965 she went toNew York City and attended New York Phoenix School of Design.

Continuing on the path, painting was always balanced with a career in commercial art until 1992. Barbara then turned her focus to painting full time. With a vision that took her beyond her traditional art training and a strong affinity to the abstract expressionists, she found a place she calls "Vargah".

Maybe Plato was familiar with this place too. He thought true reality lay in a transcendent world of unchanging, perfect abstract ideas, or forms --- a domain of mathematical relationships and fixed geometrical structures --- the realm of pure being, inaccessible to the senses. The changing world of our direct experience, he regarded as fleeting, ephemeral, and maybe just an illusion. And the universe of material objects was relegated a pale shadow or parody of the world of forms. Barbara's art awakened in this world of forms and her paintings will give you a glimpse into this world too.