#2 - Shetland School

Biography of the Artist
written by Mark Moran, publisher of Daytripping Magazine

Barbara Perrin and myself both live in Lambton County, Ontario, Canada. It's a wonderful area to visit but if you were to drive down our side roads you would notice very little difference between our area and any other rural region of Canada or the United States.  Off to the sides you would see century farms, rows of corn and soybeans, more rows of mailboxes, abandoned homes littering the landscape and the occasional windmill standing alone where a family once lived.

Sooner or later along the way, you're bound to find the remnants of a town or two, still inhabited but never again to receive the number of visitors that the trains used to bring.  Many of the general stores and feed mills still stand, but soon they too will be a part of history.

I fell in love with Barbara's art, which has captured these landmarks at a peculiar moment in time.  They are "forgotten, but not gone."  My own collection of her work includes the Inwood General Store, which could have been a familiar sight on the main street of any country town; the Petrolia Library that has been preserved in all its grandeur as a reminder of the railroad days; and the Shetland School, my personal favourite.  One room schoolhouses are still a common sight but, as weather and time continue their relentless assault, almost every one of them will fall.  Barbara seizes the moment and paints this familiar schoolhouse after it has seen the last students and before it had met its final winter.  Some day, only the painting will remain and then it will be "gone, but not forgotten."

The most wonderful and valuable aspect of Barbara Perrin's work is that each painting or sketch is an original.  In my collection I don't have printed examples of her work... I have originals.  Each original is hand drawn and coloured to bring out its own character and a satisfying sense of individuality.  It's hard to explain how very proud I am to own them.

As you look through this collection (36 of 66 are shown on this website), ask yourself if these landmarks of Lambton County are reminiscent of your own area.  This collection, after all, is not of a bunch of old buildings and things... it is of another time, a simpler time that we will never see again.

All originals in this collection are matted 8 x 10" miniatures.

#1 - Inwood Mill 

#2 - Shetland School

#3 - Carriage House

#5 - Petrolia Library 

#6 - Buggy Lantern

#10 - Schoolhouse (wood)

#11 - Inwood Barber Shop

#12 - Feedbags

#13 - Corn Crib

#16 - Alvinston Mill

#17 - Work Boots

#18 - Pig Pen

#37 - Plow

#40 - Wheel Barrow

#41 - Antiques
(Chair & Lantern)

#45 - Farm & Windmill (clouds)

#46 - Drive Shed

#50 - Old Model T Garage

#55 - Wagon Wheel

#58 - Windmill 2

#60 - Sunflowers (window)

#61 - Sunflowers (vase)

#62 - Schoolhouse 3

#63 - Sunflower Calendar

#64 - East Post

#65 - Milk House

#66 - Stump & Wedge

2009 - #5

2009 - #6

2009 - #7

2009 - #8

2009 - #9

2009 - #10

2009 - #11

2009 - #12

2009 - #13

2009 - #17

2009 - #18

2009 - #19

2009 - #20

2012 - #1

2012 - #2

2012 - #4

2012 - #5

2012 - #6

Egyptian - Pharaoh

Barbara Perrin passed away in 2013, but if you have any questions regarding her you can contact
Mark Moran at Daytripping 1-800-667-0337

All Rights Reserved.  Copyright © Barbara Perrin

The original work herein is copyrighted by the artist.  The sale of such copyrighted
work  does not include the sale of rights to reproduction (all or in part),
in any form, unless specifically granted in writing by the artist.