"A lifelong resident of St. Andrews and Bayside, he was a well-known landscape and nature water-colourist. New York artist Anne Dunn described at a Gallery 78 opening in Fredericton how Molly Bobak gave her an introduction to Barclay and his work “which we both admired.” Barclay was also a popular storyteller and drew on his adventuresome work history and travels for material for his stories. "

-from Barclay Walker's obituary