"Bringing the Museum to You"

By permission of the artist, The Cyber Art Show is pleased to feature the first of two 12-piece Exhibitions of works by American contemporary Impressionist painter Elizabeth Rhoades (born 1955 in New Haven, Connecticut).
 

Elizabeth Rhoades is an award-winning and highly- recognized Connecticut artist whose pastel paintings are characterized by their vibrant color and sensitivity to the natural forms and light in the landscape. Her work depicts a knowledge and passion for the spiritual qualities of the landscape. She seeks to express her connection to, and love for, the raw beauty of our earth. 

Elizabeth currently resides in Stafford Springs, CT. She holds art degrees from SCSU, and Wesleyan University, and has obtained an advanced degree of sixth level in art education.

She paints mostly in the plein-air tradition, and in her studio in inclement weather from her value studies and reference photos that she has taken on location. Her prior mastery of watercolor painting has provided her with an intuitive knowledge of color and value, allowing her to render her motif in pastels with an impressionistic touch while quite representational. Paintings of unblemished countryside and farmland, formal gardens, and reflections on water are among her favorite subjects. 

Elizabeth is a Signature Member of the Connecticut Pastel Society, the past President and an Elected Artist Member of the Connecticut Plein Air Painters Society, an Elected Member of the Lyme Art Association, a juried member of the Academic Artists Association, the Pastel Society of America, and Connecticut Women Artists, and a member of the Pastel Society of the West Coast,  and the Pastel Society of New Mexico. Elizabeth is represented by PS Gallery, on the Litchfield Green, Fresh Ayer Gallery in Lyme, as well as The Lyme Art Association, also in Lyme.