Barbara Walters is a freelance artist and lecturer. She has taught a range of Adult Education classes from ‘The I Can’t Draw Club’ to City and Guilds Design and Embroidery and Advanced Textiles. She has been Chairman of both the East Surrey and the East Sussex Branches of the Embroiderers’ Guild. She is Vice Chairman of the Society of Eastbourne Artists and a member of the Landscape and Arts Network. Her work is in private collections in England and abroad. It has been featured in several books and on a cd cover.
“My first love is teaching, passing the joy and satisfaction of creativity to others, both adults and children. Although I trained as a textile artist I also work in acrylics and mixed media. I work with themes, very slowly. Creation stories and legends have occupied me for over 20 years but around this theme I have embroidered countless exuberant flower gardens. Having reached the third stage of womanhood - the Crone - I am now bringing both themes together in a series of richly patterned ‘Robes’ for Wise Women and Goddesses. Life is so exciting and there are never enough hours in each day.”