As an artist and writer in the Kispiox Valley in northern B.C., Barnell has had many showings of her work. While her friend Rosemary Hauswirth was helping Barnell hang a show in March of 1994, Hauswirth received a telephone call informing her she had breast cancer. Barnwell's first book The Rosemary Suite is derived from their shared experiences of friendship after that time.

BOOKS:

The Rosemary Suite (Creekstone, 2002)

[BCBW 2004] "Health" "Women"