Artist Highlight

Barbara Rush is a very colorful and structured acrylic artist. Her work has been influenced by cubists such as Robert Delaunay and colorists like Marc Chagall, but her style is uniquely her own. She creates elegant outlines of horses, florals, and trees, then fills them with heavily gridded shapes, or curves, that in the same moment break apart and hold the subject matter together. Life is molded from lines, capturing the essence of its energy on the canvas.

Barbara is originally from Virginia Beach, Virginia and was educated in fine art and graphic design. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from Old Dominion University (VA) and a Master’s in Advertising (Design) from Syracuse University (NY). As a graphic designer, her art is heavily influenced by lines, grids, and shapes. Her love of finding shapes and forms within her subject matter is easily discernible within every painting she creates.