to the studio of Liz Rufenacht |
Liz Moore Rufenacht Liz is a native of Little Rock, Arkansas, and began drawing at a young age since her mother was an artist and art teacher. She won many poster contests as a child, was yearbook artist for award winning yearbooks, and won the Hallmark Cards Gold Key Medal of Honor for a silk screen print at age 16. She studied art at Mary Baldwin College and obtained a BSE with Honors from the University of Arkansas. In Kansas City, when her children were young, she studied acrylics under Don Fusco, Hallmark artist. For 12 years, other than teaching art as a volunteer in the Santa Rosa, California, schools, she was stage Mom to actress daughter Sarah, and horseshow Mom to daughter Beth. When both girls were in college, she and her husband moved to New Jersey where she studied pastels with Catherine Kincaid at the Montclair Museum, watercolors and life drawing with numerous teachers from the Arts Student League of NYC at the NJ Center for the Visual Arts, workshops at the Somerset Art Association, and in Mexico (Oaxaca, San Miguel deAllende, Taxco, and Acapulco) and France. Since moving to Hilton Head, she has studied with Pat Lusk, Joyce Nagel, and Uschi Niner, and nationally known artists, Sheila Parsons, Frank Webb, Charles Reid, Judi Betts, Rose Eden, Jim Kosvanec and Mary Whyte, Doug Dawson, Tom Lynch, and Larry Blovits through the Art League workshops. She has painted in France, Tuscany, Wyoming, Colorado, Martha's Vineyard, and California, and has traveled extensively throughout the world. Her latest interest is doing pastel portraits, and feels this is where her talent may be. She also handpaints and frames wedding invitations as gifts. Her works are in private collections in Colorado, California, New Jersey, Arkansas, Kansas, Georgia, and Hilton Head. She exhibits at the Hilton Head Art League Gallery, Sea Pines Center Gallery, and private shows with the Apple Pies. Liz is a member of the American Society of Portrait Artists, Southeastern Pastel Society, and SC Watercolor Society, Society of Bluffton Artists, Low Country Painters aand Beaufort Art Association. |
Liz painting on location in France. |
Art League Arts and Flowers Show 2002 |
Creation Station Show |
Watercolors in Tuscany. |
Liz painting in France. |
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