Barbara Hocker has three decades of experience as an artist, exhibiting extensively in New England, including the Lyman Allen Museum of Art, Newport Art Museum, and Real Art Ways. Barbara has work in the collection of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centers. She has received many awards/fellowships including from the Connecticut Office of the Arts, Greater Hartford Arts Council, and Artist Resource Trust. She has a BFA from Syracuse University and studied at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Her studio is in the Arbor Arts Center in Hartford, CT.

Barbara uses digital photos, monotypes, watercolor, and encaustic to create works on paper, panel, handmade books, and installations. Inspired by her interest in Wabi-Sabi, she fuses a material sensibility with a love of nature to create works that capture moments and details that are intimate, subtle, and beautiful, as well as layered, fleeting, and imperfect.