"Moonlight" original oil, image 5 x 11.5 inches, $850 framed

Al Barker is from Bordentown, New Jersey and has been painting for over 30 years. With a Bachelors and Masters degree in Forestry, this self-taught artist began drawing and painting wildlife scenes to assist his teaching curricula as a Forestry-educator on the post-secondary level. Influenced by the works of Milton Weiler and Don Stone, A.N.A., he pursued his career as an artist working in oils, watercolor and etchings. Al has won over fifty major awards in premier art competitions and principle exhibitions including Grand National American Artists Professional League, New York; Greenwich Workshop Galleries, Connecticut and California; Settlers West, Arizona; Gallery I, Ohio; and Salmagundi Club, New York. He has been exhibiting in the Anchor & Palette Gallery in Bay Head, New Jersey for over eight years. Al is also an accomplished miniaturist and his work can be seen in almost every National Miniature Exhibition in the continental United States.