Barbara Bartels

Barbara Bartels was born and raised in the Texas panhandle. “I remember amber wheat fields swaying to the music of the wind and puffy white clouds flowing in the lazy summer skies.” She loved art from the very beginning of her life, remembering patterns on the bathroom floor (at age three) and the way sunlight danced through “Lucky Charm Suckers.” She was out drawing “barns” on her Dad's business cards at age four. The year of her high school graduation her family moved to the beautiful Pikes Peak region of Colorado Springs and she remained there for thirty years.

Barbara married, and shared her love of art with her family of five wonderful children. Although she is interested in all kinds of “art,” Barbara didn't start oil painting until 1980. She is now considered a Master Instructor, teaching workshops for the Art Student League in Colorado and private schools/classes all over the country. In 1994 Barbara opened the Bartels Art Class Studio where she taught as many as 70 students per week. The Studio was considered to be the most successful Art School in southern Colorado—with just one instructor.


Taos, New Mexico is now her home. “It's a dream come true to live in this beautiful land; a dream that I didn't even know that I had until I arrived.” She teaches “on-going” classes in her home studio and on location while presenting workshops to the artistic tourist. She has been a part of the “Leudox Street Paint Out” in Taos for the last three years and the “Taos Open” at the Taos Civic Plaza for three years. Her work was displayed in the 2003 Spring Art Show, featuring over 100 paintings of Taos artisans. She presented her first “One Woman Show,” in Taos July 2002.

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