About the Artist
JoAnn Ritter is an award winning landscape artist whose dynamic,
loose and colorful impressionistic style of painting has resulted
in many accolades and awards throughout the U.S. and beyond.
In a recent interview for Arts in Boston magazine she credited her
success to painting outside on location (called en plein-aire);
a method which encourages the translation of the truthfulness of
color and harmony in nature. Her paintings embody a vibrant luminosity
which comes from years of studying color and fine tuning her concepts
of interpretation.
Her formal schooling was at Pennsylvania State University and Syracuse
University. She spent the early part of her career as an art director
and designer of multi media shows, then became part of a team that
created children's educational curricula, involving design, illustration
and sculpture. It was shortly after that that she turned full time
to painting.
Over the past two decades she has attended the Museum School in
Boston, studied with numerous nationally known painters such as
Skip Whitcomb, Don Stone, Clement Micarelli, Charles Sovek and studied
at The Lyme Academy in Old Lyme, Connecticut and the Loveland School
of Art in Colorado. She is a member of the old and "historied"
Copley Society in Boston where she exhibits many of her works at
the Newbury Street Gallery. Additionally she is a member of the
Cape Cod Art Association.
Always curious and "stretching" her talent, Ms. Ritter
has painted throughout Europe and the Caribbean. One of her unique
paintings was featured at the 57th Annual Exhibition of the Audubon
Artists in the prestigious Salmagundi Club in New York City. At
the recent Hudson Valley Art Association's 70th Annual Exhibition
held in the Newington-Cropsey Foundation Gallery, Ms. Ritter was
awarded the Isabel Steinschneider Memorial National Award. This
heavily publicized show was judged by Harvey Dinnerstein, artist
and National Academician, and consisted of 190 pieces of accepted
works plus 18 pieces of sculpture.
She spends her summers and falls in her studio on Cape Cod and the
nearby dunes and lowtide vistas that fill her shoes with sand and
salt water. She also spends time on Monhegan Island off the coast
of Maine painting the harsh beauty of that island, and during the
winter months she paints the color and people of the rural Bahamas,
wandering the streets and beaches of Harbour Island with her easel
and paints.
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