Barbara Matthews is an artist living and working in Mid Wales. She is currently working on an ongoing series of paintings based around the Lead Mines close to her home in the Cambrian Mountains. The main theme of her work is the effect on the landscape and the collective psyche of past and future industrial, agricultural and social development.
She was a practising Medical Herbalist for thirteen years, and has a particular interest in the healing and transformative power of Art.
Mae’r arlunyddes Barbara Matthews yn byw ac yn gweithio yn y Canolbarth. Ar hyn o bryd mae hi’n gweithio ar gasgliad cynyddol yn ymwneud â’r Mwyngloddiau Plwm ger ei chartref ym Mynyddoedd y Cambria. Prif thema’r gwaith yw’r modd y mae diwydiant, amaethyddiaeth a datblygiadau cymdeithasol y gorffennol a’r dyfodol yn effeithio ar y tirwedd a’r enaid casgliadol.