Keeper of the Secret

Description

Barbara travels regularly to Mexico, Central America, South America, and Asia.  In her first series, she used her large collection of Mexican and Guatemalan folk art – masks, carved wooden animals, papier mâché figures, and toys – to create one-of-a-kind pastel-on-sandpaper paintings that combine reality and fantasy and depict personal narratives.  Since 2017 she has been creating a series called “Bolivianos,” based on an exhibition of Carnival masks seen at the Museum of Ethnography and Folklore in La Paz.