Barbara Talbott has been making things all her life. She spent 20 years as a make-up artist, art director, producer and commercial photographer working with such clients as Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, Baltimore Magazine, and the Baltimore Sun. She incorporated her love of art and passion for technology into a career as a computer illustrator and graphic designer for Johns Hopkins Applied Research Labs and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center to bring Scientists and Engineers visions into life with her illustrations.

During her working career, Barbara was a resident artist at Montpelier Art Center. She explored several mediums: Printmaking, Fine Art Photography, and Encaustic Painting. She found her niche with encaustics and can incorporate her experiences with all mediums into those works. Exploration is the driving force behind her art and encaustic gives her the opportunity to expand and grow as a painter.

 Barbara is now exploring the three-dimensional arts using ceramics. Moving quickly from functional work into sculpture she has a new way of expressing her gesture into the world. Ceramics has its limitations in weight and firing size. What to do? Build in lighter weight materials like steel mesh and plaster. Her next frontier!