My name is Barbara Bose. I am a 71 year old artist. In October of 2025, my husband Jamie and our cat Sammy fled South Florida for Northern California and we are very glad about it.

I had a nice career as an art director, graphic artist and illustrator, mostly for magazines and newspapers on the East Coast. Here’s some info about me.

During my working years, I designed thousands of websites, logos, ads, photos, displays, print pieces, posters, videos, animations, catalogues, etc. I art-directed and creatively directed, booked, edited, scouted, and managed scores of shoots for fashion, food, architecture, locations, products and people. I have created literally millions of digital files now languishing in my closet on CDs, backup drives, in clouds, usb drives and elsewhere. My work has ranged from a few pixels in size to more than a city block long. Work was always interesting and fun, but what I like doing most was paint – like I meant to in the first place. I have been happily doing just that for the past several years.

So this website concentrates on things I have created for me… instead of things I created for other people.

I think something special happens when feelings are crystalized onto a canvas – or a piece of paper or a keyboard: a little spark is born when something is created. Like a song, art is a relatable piece of ourselves that can resonate to and through others, on and on into the future. I hope my images and words point things out which a viewer may not have noticed or thought about before, particularly our relationship with the world, and maybe even with ourselves.