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Barbel's love of the Canadian landscape translates into her numinous paintings. She endeavours to capture the soul of the landscape by focusing on the light, shapes and colours.
Bärbel was born in Germany and immigrated to Canada with her family as a child. She has always loved painting, even early on – and the Canadian landscape captured a fascination within her. She grew up near Huntsville, Ontario where the beautiful scenery inspired many paintings and sketches.
Later she lived in western Canada and received her training through self – study and attending Alberta University of the Arts. Since then, she has travelled from coast to coast capturing the colours, light, and joy in her depiction of the Canadian landscape; focusing on the emotive use of colour and line – erasing extraneous details and infusing her paintings with a spiritual vision. Numerous layers of glazing give her paintings a glow - as if lit from within.
She was recently featured in a magazine article titled “Light in the Landscape”; has taught art classes for over a decade and a half and currently resides in a country home surrounded by forest where she paints full time.