Biography
During the last 35 years of working as a professional artist, Barbara Tobin Klema has been the former owner of two art galleries and one teaching studio, worked with botanical illustration and graphic design, taught watercolor, drawing, and design at Fort Lewis College, plus teaching privately. Barbara has had paintings shown in the prestigious Rocky Mountain National Watercolor Society Exhibit and the Colorado Open. In 1986 she first won a merit award in a national show judged by Morris Shubin, then Vice-President of the American Watercolor Society, and in 2006 won a Juror’s Choice Award at the Mesa Verde Bicentennial Exhibit. Since then Barbara has won six more awards in national exhibits including a Second Prize, a Third Prize and several Juror’s Choice Awards. Last year she won “Best of Show” for her painting titled, “Mother and Child” at the Durango Arts Center annual juried exhibit. Barbara loves living and working in dramatic and beautiful southwest landscapes.
