"it takes strength, strength and courage, to succumb to certain temptations... Oscar Wilde

Barbara A.C. Hennig-Loomis

     I currently reside in the Tidewater area of Virginia having previously lived throughout the United States and in western Europe.  My education in the arts has been varied, and I have had some formidable guides along the way. My mother, an art major herself, came of age when abstraction and expressionism were guiding forces, and took away any anxiety or compulsion I might have had about making a work "look real". Tom Moore, currently of Fayetteville, N.C., made the lightbulbs go on when he told me about color, and that there were "a million right ways to paint, and only three or four wrong ones." Cleo Mullins, then teaching Art Conservation at Virginia Commonwealth University, taught me about the importance of respecting the physical characteristics of materials, the character of any artist`s mark, sheer physical endurance, and about the impact of the passage of time.  I hold an undergraduate degree in Art History from VCU; my graduate studies in the same were conducted as a Fulbright Fellow in Germany.