Born in October, 1970, in Tampa, Florida, Ibarra wanted to be an artist from an early age. Encouraged by family and teachers, she studied music and art through high school, and then sought her degree in Fine Arts at the University of Florida. In college she pursued a rich and varied course of study including photography, printmaking, drawing and painting. She graduated with honors in the summer of 1993.
Since moving to Atlanta, Ibarra has been perfecting her painting skills with her Antigua still lifes and figural works. She paints long hours in her studio at home, and manages to find time to travel with her family. "My extensive travel through Latin America has enhanced in me an appreciation for the evocative nature of the everyday object. My still lifes attempt to convey this sensuality."

Ibarra' s paintings now hang in many galleries and private collections
throughout the United States and Canada.

COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITIONS
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
Doubletree Hotel, Nashville, Tennessee
J Carlole, Taos, New Mexico
Media One, Dunwoody, Georgia
Wentworth Galleries, Miami, Florida
Bennett Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
Rivers Edge, Wyandatte, Michigan
Geisheimer MacPherson Artworks, Vancouver, British Columbia
Renaissance Fine Arts, Baltimore, Maryland
Atlantic Richfield, Los Angeles, California
Artexpo, New York, New York