Barbara Pierson studied fine art at Colchester School of Art after first training as an actor, she has combined a career in theatre and as an artist ever since.

Barbara lives in the coastal marshland of Essex, painting from her studio, a stone's throw from the river that washes in and out with the tide.

Perhaps it is because of her roots in the theatre, a sense of implicit narrative pervades Barbara Peirson's works, even though this narrative is elusive. The landscapes and the figures that appear in them evoke something neither real nor imagined, more a world half-remembered.