Barbara Bash has written and illustrated many highly acclaimed books about the natural world for adults and children.

She is a calligrapher, illustrator, and teacher who leads classes in field sketching as well as the popular Big Brush workshops where participants learn to trust their own creative instinct while working with enormous horsehair brushes and great buckets of ink.

Her illustrated journals have long been a source of inspiration to colleagues and students. True Nature is her first published journal.