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Q: Do you have any advice for a young painter or someone just starting out as...

Studio A:  As artists each of us has at least two important responsibilities:  to express things we are feeling for which there are no adequate words and to communicate to a select few people, who...

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Pearls from artists* # 106

Road delay, Arizona * an ongoing series of quotations – mostly from artists, to artists – that offers wisdom, inspiration, and advice for the sometimes lonely road we are on. Yet even I, who track the...

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Pearls from artists* # 113

Studio corner * an ongoing series of quotations – mostly from artists, to artists – that offers wisdom, inspiration, and advice for the sometimes lonely road we are on. In Amsterdam I saw a striking...

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Pearls from artists* # 154

Idea for a painting * an ongoing series of quotations – mostly from artists, to artists – that offers wisdom, inspiration, and advice for the sometimes lonely road we are on. Often the public forms an...

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Pearls from artists* # 423

“Epiphany,” soft pastel on sandpaper, 38″ x 58″ * an ongoing series of quotations – mostly from artists, to artists – that offers wisdom, inspiration, and advice for the sometimes lonely road we are...

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Q; What was the spark that got you started? (Question from Barbara Smith via...

Ensign Barbara Rachko, circa 1983 A: If I had to select one factor, I would say, profound unhappiness with my professional life. In 1986 I was a 33-year-old Navy Lieutenant working as a computer...

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Pearls from artists* # 466

“Between,” soft pastel on sandpaper, 20″ x 26″ *an ongoing series of quotations – mostly from artists, to artists – that offers wisdom, inspiration, and advice for the sometimes lonely road we are on....

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Pearls from artists* # 501

New York City * an ongoing series of quotations – mostly from artists, to artists – that offers wisdom, inspiration, and advice for the sometimes lonely road we are on. When I talk about “creative...

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Pearls from artists* # 503

Barbara’a Studio * an ongoing series of quotations – mostly from artists, to artists – that offers wisdom, inspiration, and advice for the sometimes lonely road we are on. … your life is short and...

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Pearls from artists* # 507

Working on “Raconteur” * an ongoing series of quotations – mostly from artists to artists – that offers wisdom, inspiration, and advice for the sometimes lonely road we are on. Intellectual work...

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Pearls from artists* # 576

In progress: “Shadow,” soft pastel on sandpaper, 26” x 20” *an ongoing series of quotations – mostly from artists, to artists – that offers wisdom, inspiration, and advice for the sometimes lonely...

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