Barbara Allen’s desire for creative expression began early in life. During college, her passion continued to grow as she explored oil painting, pastels, creative writing, and music. With a degree in Art History, she began her career in interior design, which later evolved into lighting design.
After several unexpected turns along her life path, Barbara spent years working as a substance abuse counselor while also launching a pet portrait business. Her current work creating miniature organic nature-scapes grew from her redesign of an enchanted backyard garden incorporating natural and repurposed elements... [ more ]
A Red Pine tree was planted at the corner of 212 Merry Street in the late 60s that evolved over the decades into a cooperative household. We are making it a place for comity and creativity; Clarity and the imagination; we change detritus of early 21st century late stage capitalism into art, shrine, paintings, music, sculptures, urban Permaculture and homesteading experiments. We appreciate the used, the worn out, ever crumbling and reassembling; as we all are all the time. [ more ]
