Barron is a watercolor painter who lives in Jackson, MS. She was born in Houston, Texas, in 1941. She received her Bachelor of Fine Art from Mississippi University for Women in Columbus in 1963. In 1969, she married Richard Barron and they ahve two children.
In 2002 and 2003, she had paintings accepted into both the American Watercolor Society Show in New York and the National Watercolor Society Show in California, making her the first Mississippi artist to gain acceptance into the top two national juried shows in the same calendar year.