Barbara Esmark is a painter and printmaker who lives and has her studio in New York!s mid-Hudson Val-ley. She did her foundation studies at the Art Students League of New York in painting, drawing and anatomy, attended Tyler School of Art and has a BFA in painting from SUNY, New Paltz.In 2005 Esmark opened beGallery in High Falls N.Y., showing the works of artists near and far. She closed the gallery in 2009 to return to working solely as a visual artist/painter. In 2019 Esmark began to reacquaint herself with the study and practice of printmaking.She also teaches and practices Tai Chi and Qigong. Esmark has many collectors throughout the Northeast and California. She exhibits throughout the Hud-son Valley of New York. In addition to her visual art, her poetry has been featured on WKZE radio!sWomen of Note, and most recently published by The Poetry Distillery, 2021, Small Batch #2. She serves on the advisory board of the Samuel Dorsky Museum, New Paltz and the Woodstock School of Art.