Tamsin Barlow works full-time as an artist in her little studio in Rochester, Minnesota. She is a self-taught linoleum block printer (relief print), and oil painter. She bases her art on a continued search for comfort, presence and a sense of place.

Though she paints many subjects she is drawn to lonely spaces, mountains, and above all trees in the way they capture light, fragmenting it, and create fascinating silhouettes. In printing she is inspired by the beauty of the form: the jagged edge of a leaf, the creases in rocks, and the patterns of foliage