Barbara Maiser first formally studied art at College Misericordia, Dallas, Pennsylvania where she earned a degree in Biology. Because she has always loved colors and patterns she started working with fabrics and before long she was designing award-winning quilts. This led to classes and a scholarship at the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CT.
Today Barbara works mostly in watercolors on paper seeking to weave both control and looseness in to every painting. She is an artist memeber of the Salmagundi Club in New York City, Connecticut Watercolor Society, Lyme Art Association, Old Lyme, CT and the Mystic Art Association, Mystic, CT.
According to Barbara, "The visual situations which attract my attention as subjects for paintings are those in which I see character, mood, and uniqueness. From there I'm intrigued by how objects occupy space, for example, how a house sits nestled into a hillside, how tree limbs and flower stems seek their own growing area and how the quality of light changes as it washes over objects and their surroundings. From this point of awareness, I love to manipulate patterns and colors into recognizable images."