Barb Hutchison was born in Ohio and graduated from The Cleveland Institute of Art with a degree in medical illustration and photography. Her professional career has been as a freelance medical illustrator for major publishing companies, contributing volumes of illustrations in many of the top selling textbooks. Her clients include Prentice Hall, Harcourt Brace, World Book, Pearson, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, Harvard Health Publishing, and others.

Although her profession is illustration, her passion is painting. Barb has returned to the joy of landscape painting and sharing with others the exhilaration of the creative process; whether on the artist's canvas, on the computer screen, or in the garden. She lives on the coast in Jamestown with her husband and young son.