Barbara Shaw was born in Chicago and raised all over the country and U.S. Territories. After her Dad retired from the Navy, she finished school in California, and has traveled around the world ever since. She settled in the New Orleans area in 1980. After dabbling in painting for a few years, she went back to college (even took a few classes with her daughter) and got her BA in Fine Arts/Painting. Her vigorously bold colors have been described as “awkwardly elegant.” She sees more color than most people are aware of and chooses to use that vision to investigate the experience of the interconnected web of all existence.
