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NEWS AND EVENTS

2/5/2010 - PRESS: House Beautiful
March 2010 Issue/ Page 112 /Article: "Blue as the Ocean " Features my hand painted nautical map mural for Designer Kim Coleman's Southampton ocean front project

12/1/2008 - PRESS
VOX Hamptons Nov/Dec issue features both custom trompe l'oeil fireplace tiles and a hand painted table, in their "Holiday Parlor"

5/1/2005 - NEWS
Signed with licensing agent Elise Rosenthal of Rosenthal Represents based in LA , providing artwork for the Home/Decor industry including dinnerware, ceramics and fine art prints. Barbara now has TABLETOP collections with Certified International, Gibson USA and Kennex.

PRESS
MURALS created for The Bath & Tennis Hotel, Westhampton Beach, are featured in HAMPTON FAMILY LIFE magazine: Premiere issue. June '04 pages 28-31

MURALS with public access:
At The Bath & Tennis Hotel
231 Dune Road
Westhampton Beach, New York

SOLLY BROWN'S CAFE
Painted 'trompe l'oeil' murals on all four walls of 1000 sq.ft. lobby cafe, creating arches and water views where there were none, a wall of awning stripe cabanas to disguise utility doors, and a 25' wall of 1890's boardwalk signage.

TIERRA MAR
Upstairs,also at The Bath & Tennis Hotel:
the Tierra Mar Club Room restaurant consists of Italian frescoes:
Pompeiian wall panels, 5 food paintings, and a floral decorative soffit.

THE GOLDEN PEAR CAFE
111 Main Street Sag Harbor NY
"Farmstand" commissioned painting on canvas
7' wide x 4' high to celebrate the bountiful local harvest of the East End of Long Island

PROJECTS: partial list
January 2009 -Sam's Garage
Halsey Neck Lane Southampton NY
50' long mural for Classic Car Collection
including a 1950's vintage garage and diner

January 2008- Map Room
Meadow Lane Southampton NY
Wrap around all four walls & ceiling
Nautical map: Manhattan to Montauk,to scale

Winter 2008- The Children's Wing
Meadow Lane Southampton NY
Residential 60' Hallway & Ceiling
with full size Atlantic Ocean sealife:
Including: sharks,tuna, seals, dolphins & turtles

October 2007- Children's nursery
Park Avenue NY
Mural 10'x13' of hot air balloons over
soft rolling landscape

May 2006- Guest room
Charlotte NC
Six monochromatic tree peonies with exotic birds

January 2005- Ceiling mural restoration
Commerce St, Bridgeton NJ
Restoration of Italianate ceiling mural in a small 1870 commercial building.

June 2003 - Commercial exterior installation
Rockola Bar and Grille, Greensboro NC
Exterior mural installation for chain of 15 restaurants:
super graphics of food, diners, and servers.
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January 2003
National Aquarium in Baltimore
18 Illustrations for the new Building Expansion project,
working from architectural models & plans
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August 2002 - Residential / Waterfront Poolhouse, Hampton Bays
9 walls in 3 rooms of beach scenes; dunes, water,seabirds and marsh.
The paint palette was customized to integrate new tile & existing Formica.
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June 2002 - Healthcare Facility / East End Pediatrics, East Hampton
9'h x 60' w: Wall mural of sky changing from day to night with animal faces
in the clouds and indigenous creatures scattered throughout.
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April 2002 - Residential / Entrance foyer, East Hampton
25'h x 20' w: Handpainted "Chinese wallpaper" bird & flora motif
Bamboo, peonies and exotic birds for two story entrance foyer.
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