Artist Creates Southwest Art in Arizona

Southwest artist, Barbara Ann Spencer Jump has been painting for most of her life.  Professionally for the past 20 years.  Originally from Texas, she’s made her home in Arizona for 37 years, and feels “right at home” with the desert, the mountains, the huge open skies that are a kaleidoscope of colors at sunrise, sunset and on rainy days.  

Barbara Ann’s works of art are also found in three galleries and a few other venues through out Arizona.  Tourists and natives alike enjoy her view of the desert and life in the southwest.

Her art work is in private and corporate collections across the nation, and in several other nations, including England, Japan, Germany, Russia, Italy and Australia.  She travels through out Arizona, California, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico and sometimes Texas, to show her work in some of the best “juried” art festivals in the southwest.    

This work is not ‘traditional’ southwest.   It’s a very contemporary southwest with clear and bright colors, and subject matter to make you smile.  Barbara paints the mats as an enhancement to the paintings.  Time and again she hears from customers, “You know, I never really liked southwest art, but I love this!”  

She has participated in art shows with: the Phippen Museum, the Huachuca Art League, Mesa Center for the Arts, Laguna Gloria Museum, (Austin, Texas), and the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix.  In addition she has participated in art festivals held by Scottsdale Celebration of Fine Art, George Phippen Museum Memorial Show (Prescott, AZ), Tubac Festival (Tubac, AZ), Southwest Art Festival (Indio, CA),  Pecan Street Festival (Austin, Texas), Grand Canyon National Park, Santa Fe Festivals, (Santa Fe, NM), Fountain Hills festivals (Fountain Hills, AZ), Tempe Arizona Festivals, Thunderbird Artists Festivals (Arizona), Summerlin Arts Festival (NV), Cottonwood Art Festival (Richardson, TX), and Hidden in the Hills (Carefree/Cave Creek, Arizona), sponsored by the Sonoran Art League.

Barbara works in watercolor  and acrylic, on paper and canvas. She is a prolific artist and has a lot of original art work in watercolor and acrylic that are not shown on this site, please contact her to view those works of art.    

This site is an on-line brochure and catalogue for those who live in places far from Arizona.  It's easier to see the paintings on line than by telephone and US mail!  This is also the easiest way for local clients and customers to keep track of shows and to know when she has new work. Consider purchasing original art work.  There are several pieces on this web site that are reasonably priced and ready to hang in your home or office.