Sixteen Years – 2008 to 2024 Volume 5, Issue 1
ARTIST FEATURE BARBEL Smith ALIVE WITH COLOUR
BÄRBEL SMITH is a Canadian by heart and German born. Growing up she spent numerous hours with her sketch book and paints capturing the lakes and forests of rural Ontario. Her subject matter is the Canadian landscape. She creates sketches and field studies from her
travels
through the interior of BC, Alberta, across the prairies and northern Ontario, through Quebec and finally the east coast. She strives to see beyond the busy surface of things and capture the light, colours and shapes of this numinous land.