Valerie Brennan interviews painter Barbara Campbell Thomas about her work and studio practice. 

Thomas notes: "…over time I've found I can never just recreate in the studio what I've seen out in the world. Something always falls flat in translation. I've got to happen upon the experience I seek over the course of working. So I don't head into working with any hard and fast notions of what I'm going to make. I simply start putting color and shape together and I watch what results very closely."