About the Artist :: Mallory Rich
Primarily a self-taught artist, Rich has studied pastel painting with Albert Handell, Virginia McNeice, and at the Woodstock School of Art. She has been the recipient of three Artist Residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, and an Artist Development Grant from the Vermont Arts Council and the NEA. She was also a resident at Art Week on Great Spruce Head Island, Maine, at the former home of Fairfield Porter. A native of Alabama, Rich lived most of her life in Connecticut and now resides in Sandgate, Vermont, with her husband, the painter Harry Rich.
Rich says, “Pastels are my primary medium because of their immediacy, their color range, and their archival quality. I am also pleased to be part of the current renaissance in pastel painting by serious artists and collectors throughout the United States. The focus of my work is the landscape in areas I know and love – rural Vermont, eastern New York, coastal Maine, and North Carolina’s Outer Banks, where I am always trying to capture the elusive and complex quality of light, shadow, and atmosphere.”
Mallory Rich is represented by Gallery Wright in Wilmington, VT; Camden Falls Gallery in Camden, ME; The Atchison Gallery in Birmingham, AL; Secret Garden Gallery in Ocracoke, NC, and Redux Arts and Antiques in Dorset, VT.