Barbara Foley
Part of the Collaborative Art Project
Artist Hometown: Mickleton
When Barbara Foley was in second grade, her art teacher asked her to draw and color a picture of something she really liked. Barbara loved horses, and to this day she still remembers the smell of the crayons she used to create her drawing of a big, black horse.
Barbara fell in love with art too and as a child spent hours and hours in the basement of her family’s home in Woodbury painting and painting. Though she wanted to pursue art in college, Barbara heeded her mother’s advice and instead became a nurse.
Six years ago, having finished raising her family, Barbara gave up her nursing career and went back to doing what she really loved, painting. She has since studied at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Perkins Center for the Arts, and Wayne Art Center.
“I see beauty, color, and grace in everything around us, and I just find a need to put it down on linen panels with brushes loaded with juicy, oily colors. It makes me happy, and who doesn’t like to be happy.”
Artist Hometown: Mickleton
When Barbara Foley was in second grade, her art teacher asked her to draw and color a picture of something she really liked. Barbara loved horses, and to this day she still remembers the smell of the crayons she used to create her drawing of a big, black horse.
Barbara fell in love with art too and as a child spent hours and hours in the basement of her family’s home in Woodbury painting and painting. Though she wanted to pursue art in college, Barbara heeded her mother’s advice and instead became a nurse.
Six years ago, having finished raising her family, Barbara gave up her nursing career and went back to doing what she really loved, painting. She has since studied at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Perkins Center for the Arts, and Wayne Art Center.
“I see beauty, color, and grace in everything around us, and I just find a need to put it down on linen panels with brushes loaded with juicy, oily colors. It makes me happy, and who doesn’t like to be happy.”
