In 1996 Barbara travelled to Switzerland and Paris at the request of a gallery owner who commissioned some of Barbara's paintings. Every painting was snapped up by private collectors and this proved to be the turning point in her life. In Bush Berry she depicts these small brightly coloured berries in an intricate yet bold style with often a spiralling theme indicating the berries fruiting from a vine that wound its way around its hosts tree. Grass Seed is a series of small brush strokes, often in earth colours, that overlap and weave to create a swaying effect, rather like the swaying of the long grass found outbush. My Mother's Country, a series of paintings in a subtle palette of intricate dots with the underpainting prevailing.
Indigenous people have with the land.