An Installation of both retrospective and new paintings
BIOGRAPHY
Barbara Rusmore has completed residencies at the Vermont Studios, the Artist-Wilderness Connection with the Bob Marshall Foundation, and attended a plein air artist retreat in the Italian Dolomites. Since 2009, her paintings have been exhibited at the Holter Museum, Hockaday Museum, Dana Gallery, Emerson Center, Bozeman Library, and Myrna Loy Center. She is a 2022 inductee of the Montana Conservation Hall of Fame, and co-founder, in 1978, of the Montana Land Reliance.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Barbara’s oil paintings, created on location—en plain air—explore Montana’s dynamic skies and landforms, and declare her love of nature’s intimate, deep peace. Painting arise from focused observation, immersed in the spirit of the day and place: birdsong, sun angle, insects, and often, wind, rain, and snow. Her studio work takes this experience into deeper explorations of design, and translations into larger works. Her quest is to draw the viewer into greater appreciation of not only the natural world, but of that sweet spot between realism and the abstract, that place that lures one into wonder and appreciation.
