Featured in Western Art Collector, June 2026

I’m honored to be featured in Western Art Collector’s June 2026 issue, in Canyons & Deserts: The Glamorous Unknown by Michael Clawson.

Artist Barbara Coleman strives to create visual poetry when painting images like Ancient Echoes, a canyon piece revealing the colorful layers of strata. “I love to paint plein air to get ideas, color studies and source references. I take all this information, plus my memories and feelings about a place, and start coming up with ideas for compositions in the studio. I explore a variety of formats and ideas for placement and size of the elements of the painting. It is thrilling to make blobs of paint come alive, evoking the emotions I feel and expressing the soul of a place.”