Colorado artist Barb Benik has been a student of art her entire life. After retiring from the engineering profession in 2000, Barb began to study oil painting.

Influenced by the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, Barb is a contemporary realist and colorist. She displays her work in local art exhibits and shows, and she is a member of Lakewood Arts Council's art co-op located in LAC's Community Art Center and Gallery, 85 S. Union Blvd., Lakewood, CO. Barb works in pencil, acrylic, watercolor, and oil.

Barb is a member of the Mountainside Art Guild and the Lakewood Arts Council (LAC). She has served on the LAC Board as a Member-At-Large since 2008.

Barb also is the executive assistant for the Colorado State Music Teachers Association.

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Favorite Blogs

Lakewood Arts Council

Cynthia Haase's Littleton Studio

Karin Jurick's Different Strokes from Different Folks
One Photograph Painted by Many

Karin Jurick's A Painting Today

Jerry Points Paintings

Lee Brown's A Day Not Wasted