BIOGRAPHY

Recognized for her work nationally and internationally, Gerrye Riffenburgh has exhibited extensively in museums and galleries across the US and Europe, earning numerous awards. After a brief career in clinical psychology, she returned to complete a degree in art, graduating summa cum laude, and continuing her study at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Carrara Italy, and with such renowned artists as Sergei Bongart, Kevin MacPherson, Matt Smith, Ray Roberts and Sebastian Capella.

Her active participation in the arts while she was living for 11 years in Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Italy stimulated her love for plein air painting and increased her sensitivity to the variations of light and atmosphere as they impinged on color, value and form. When she returned to her home in Southern California, her passion for landscape painting increased with her heightened awareness and appreciation for the richness and variety of the California and Western landscape.

Riffenburgh is a Signature Member of the American Impressionist Society, the International Plein Air Painters, and the National Oil and Acrylic Society. She is also a juried Artist Member of the American Society of Marine Artists and the California Art Club, and is the founder of the Plein Air Painters Association of San Diego (PAPASAN). Other memberships include Oil Painters of America and American Society of Master Impressionists.

Her works are in collections throughout Europe and North America.