Artist: Al Barker

Al Barker has a Bachelors and Masters Degree in Forestry. He has worked as a Forestry educator in the private industry and later at the post-secondary level. Without formal art training he began drawing and painting wildlife scenes to assist his teaching curricula. Presently as a full-time artist, Al specializes in smaller sized paintings completing works in both oil and watercolor as well as rendering many small editions of etchings. Al is one of a few artists that have exhibited continuously at the Easton Waterfowl Festival, Easton, MD, since its inception over thirty years ago. Al has won over fifty major awards in premier art competitions and principle exhibitions. He recently won the 2006 Alden Bryan Memorial Prize for Traditional Landscape in Oil at New York's prestigious Salmagundi Club's annual combined member's exhibition. He has had a piece accepted into the White House Collection in Washington, DC. Al’s work can be seen in almost every National Miniature Exhibition in the continental United States.

Marsh Moon , oil on panel, 3 x 8 inches Sold	Warm Skies, oil on panel, 3 x 8 inches Sold
Summer Marsh, oil on panel, 6 x 8 inches
Marsh Gulls II, oil on panel, 3 x 10 inches
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