Born in Ohio, moving to several states before settling in Ct.,  Barbara Perrotti took formal drawing lessons at a very early age.  Her desire to be an artist never ceased.  She eventually attended the Paier School of Art and then went on to study with Robert Brackman in Madison, Ct.  Before leaving Connecticut she began taking portrait commissions.  Upon moving to Florida her portrait career flourished but she felt the need to be in the open air.   She fell in love with the Florida landscape and moved her studio into the great outdoors.   She feels her combined love of people and landscape grew out of living in so many different locals in her formative years.   Barbara is an impressionist with a strong sense of place... she romances her compositions with color and line.   I hear and see the music when I paint.  There is an unmistakable rhythm in nature that tends to grab at you and hold you spellbound.  My composition begins as an abstraction of nature and as I push toward reality my thoughts are concentrated in the mere simplicity and pristine serenity of the impression.