Barbara Baine grew up in Memphis, Tennessee.  She has lived in Clarksdale, Mississippi with her husband and children for the last 30 years.  Baine graduated from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.  She has been interested in art all of her life.  Her main focus is nature in all of its many facets.  Baine’s style ranges from impressionistic to abstract.  She strives to evoke an emotion from the viewer through subject matter, design, and color.  Baine works in acrylics, water color, and mixed media.  Baine has taken classes at Tulane, The Memphis Academy of Art and Delta State University.  She has studied under such well known artist as Sammy Britt, Anne Barron, Jake Wagnon, Pat Odom, and Chen Khee Chee.  Her paintings hang in many fine homes throughout the South. 

Delta Magazine said, “Barbara Baine paints life as she knows it, with vivid passion and an evident sense of what is important in the world.  Her paintings bring out exactly what she intends honest emotion.”