Barbara Bash is a lover of the alphabet and a calligraphic practitioner of contemplative art with brush, pen, and pencil. A longtime Shambhala Buddhist, she has explored the mixing of Asian sensibility with Western art forms, collaborating with musicians, storytellers and dancers in fresh forms of visual learning.  Barbara has written and illustrated a number of children’s books about the natural world  and more recently True Nature : An Illustrated Journal of Four Seasons in Solitude.  For more information about her work go to – barbarabash.com .  Her visual blog is barbarabash.blogspot.com