Frost may have taken out the flowers, but they’ll be in full bloom via Zoom Nov. 19, when Elizabeth Robbins presents at Artsbridge’s Distinguished Artists Series.
The National Oil Painters of America 2020 Still Life Award of Excellence winner will demonstrate her painting technique and show some of her award-winning masterpieces.
Raised in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, Robbins now lives and works in Ogden. She is best known for her classically beautiful floral still life works but also enjoys painting portraits and capturing the soul of a person.
Robbins’ love of flowers began in childhood, thanks to her grandmother helping her identify various wildflowers at their cabin above Oakley, Utah. “I still have the book that I pressed and categorized wildflowers (in) with my grandmother,” she said.
Robbins also grows all the flowers that she lovingly paints. Over 100 roses, peonies, lilies, sunflowers and many other flowers are just a step away from her 600-square- foot studio, where she paints.
She is co-owner of Bella Muse Gallery in Ogden, and owns Bella Muse Productions, where she films and produces instructional painting videos and offers painting scholarships to help inspire other artists along their journey.
Robbins has won numerous awards including “Best Still Life” and “Best of Show” at the National Oil and Acrylic Painter’s Exhibit and the “Tuffy Berg Award” at the 2008 CM Russell auction. She is represented by several top galleries.
She also co-owns “Inspired to Paint” with her friend Shanna Kunz, which is an online art membership course.
Robbins’ work is in private collections throughout the United States and in the Ella Dunnegan Museum in Bolivar, Mo.
To learn more about Robbins and to see her work, visit her web site, robbinsfineart.com.
To attend the free Zoom presentation, or for information, visit artsbridgeonline.com.
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