Tim and Barb Husby create collaborative mixed media works that merge geometry with organic form, craftsmanship with painterly expression. Their art reflects a fusion of their professional backgrounds—Barb in landscape oil painting and commercial interior design, and Tim in engineering and custom furniture making. Together, their work combines careful structure with artistic spontaneity, featuring earth tones with occasional bursts of brighter color.

Barb’s love for color and form began in childhood, nurtured by a family of artists and a career in design. Tim brings a precise, material-driven sensibility developed through years of engineering and furniture building. Their process begins in the wood shop and continues in the studio, where materials such as MDF, softwoods, hardwoods, oil and watercolor paints, spray finishes, stains, and urethanes come together in layered, dimensional compositions.

Six years living in Santa Fe, New Mexico served as a turning point in their creative journey. Immersed in the region’s rich gallery culture, they explored countless approaches to material and design, inspiring a new artistic direction rooted in exploration and collaboration.

Now working together in their Colorado studio, Tim and Barb see their creative partnership as an ongoing experiment—a joyful, ever-evolving process that continues to expand their interests and challenge their shared artistic vision.