BARBARA ROBERSTON received her MFA in printmaking from the University of Washington. She was the president and Co-Founder of Seattle Print Arts and taught at the Pratt Fine Arts Center.

ROBERTSON’S artistic practice involves photographing everyday objects such as light fixtures and architectural elements as well as environmental phenomena such as light observed through filters or exploding fireworks. She then makes a variety of changes to the photo image and prints these digital images on a large format printer. She completes each piece with hand drawn, traditionally printed, and painted forms to create a space-scape of materializing and dematerializing forms. The tension between photographic and hand drawn images, between symbolic and diagrammatic forms and the resulting expressive possibilities are the foundation and the focus of the work.

Important aspects of ROBERTSON’S work include the ambiguities of space and scale, the virtual and actual and the relationship between the macro and micro. She studies math websites for inspiration and learns about physicists and astronomers' theories and how they are explained mathematically. ROBERTSON explores form and space through architectural diagrams and structures. She reflects on ideas of how we build to help us understand and experience the world. And she asks what is its meaning for our community. ROBERTSON has furthered her insights by her recent travels to Jaipur and the Jantar Mantar, one of the five astronomical observatory environments built in the 18th Century in India.