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Sharin Barber
I am nothing but a guest here on this island, but then again, we are all just guests on this planet. Echo Island belongs to a professor friend of mine, whom I met while walking my two Border Collies, Poppy and Jack. The professor has a beautiful Border Collie named Hugo, and with that shared bond, we became friends. Eventually, we found ourselves guests here, on Echo Island.
It is my great honour to show you around, with paint and with words. I’m not so good with the words, so please forgive me. But beauty makes us brave.
So welcome to Echo Island: four acres on the deepest part of the lake.
Sharin Marie Barber (1958 - )
Toronto artist Sharin Barber spends summers in the Algonquin Highlands painting forest and cottage scenes on Echo Island, Kawagama Lake. She lives in the island’s sole building, a rustic, century-old cabin that writer E.B. White frequented in the early twentieth century.
Ensconced in the natural world without electricity or running water, Barber connects us to its wild enchantment with palette knives and oils. Her interior studies of the cabin take us back in time, to island cottaging in 1920s Ontario.
Sharin Barber graduated with honours from the Ontario College of Art in 1980. Her work has been presented in numerous solo shows and group exhibitions. In addition to her island studies, Barber is illustrating a book.
