Mission Statement

The Rocky Mountain Society of Botanical Artists is an open and diverse group of artists, collectors and admirers who share a love for the practice and perpetuation of botanical art and illustration with a fond focus on plants in the Rocky Mountain Region.
We encourage and participate in educational outreach, juried and non-juried exhibits, lectures, workshops and regular chapter meetings. The RMSBA is proud to be the very first chapter affiliation of the international organization, the American Society of Botanical Artists.

Friday, September 30, 2022

Summer heat lingers as the asters bloom and leaf-peepers appear


 


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“Wild, Wild, West” has filled the Call for Entries at Online Juried Shows and we await the results from the jurors. This exhibit opens in late October 2022 at the Betty Ford Alpine Gardens in Vail, and will move to Blue Sage Gallery in Paonia in June 2023. 

Member meeting in person at Denver Botanic Gardens on October 16, 1 - 3 pm. This meeting also collects the artists’ submissions for Wild, Wild, West. Members can drop off their pieces at the end of the meeting. We will gather in Classroom 1 of the F-N Education Center. Please feel free to bring anything you may be working on to the meeting. We do so like to see one another’s work.


Member shows. Susan Rubin, Phillip Potter, and Susan DiMarchi abstract through a botanical lens, featuring drawings in colored pencil and mixed media.

Spark Gallery, 900 Santa Fe Bl, Denver, October 27 – November 20

Opening Receptions: Friday, October 28, 5-9 pm

  Saturday, October 29, noon-5pm

 Rubin’s ‘Perspective’ considers the pandemic’s effects on the way we see things, offering descriptive juxtaposition of size and perspective to describe our shifting viewpoint.  


‘Community’, colored pencil and pastel, 24X24”, © 2022 Susan Rubin 






Potter’s ‘Ineffable’ suggests life experiences are shaded by mundane and corporeal actuality, while reality is our perception and how we process the experience.


'Transitory Formation of Mental Objects’, colored pencil and gouache, 16 X16”, © 2022 Phillip Potter

 

DiMarchi’s ‘Shelf Life’, reminds us that everything has an expiration date. Nothing lasts forever, except the plastic milk jug.


“Incoming Beetle, 16X16”, Colored Pencil, © 2022 Susan DiMarchi




Abundant Future: Cultivating Diversity in Garden, Farm, and Field” is the ASBA traveling exhibit coming this month to DBG. October 7 Opening is “sold out.” Hope some of you signed up on-line before the limit was reached. Also opening are “Seeing Red: Botanical Art and Illustration” and “Sammy Seung-min Lee: Taking Root.”


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