About the Artist
Nora Bushong Larimer, currently living in Buena Vista, CO grew up in a farming community in Illinois. Nora studied at Illinois State University and Principia College and graduated with a B.A. in studio art in 1975. Since then, she has added extensive coursework to her experience, including print-making and graduate level courses in drawing, painting, and art history. A professional artist since 1976, she has also had her own custom framing business since 1981. She has taught watercolor classes on location and from her various studio-galleries for 25 years, in addition to being a watercolor and oil painting instructor at Lewis and Clark Community College in Godfrey, IL.
Best known for her watercolors, she has spent time painting on location all over the U.S. from rural and coastal Maine, to the forests of Pennsylvania, the Amish Farms of Ohio, to Colorado, Wyoming, and New Mexico, as well as abroad in S. E. Asia and Belize, Central America. This broad experience has helped to shape her bold fresh watercolors and oils of natural landscapes, florals, and fish.
Nationally recognized, Nora has won numerous awards at juried shows and festivals throughout the U.S. Some highlights include:
Signature member of Texas Watercolor Society
Signature member of the Missouri Watercolor Society
2008- Best in show for the 1st annual Plein Air Festival, CMPAF, Colorado
2009- A 1st place award during “paint-out” at 2nd annual Plein Air Festival, CMPAF, Colorado
2009- Best of show and 1st place for the AVAC awards show, Buena Vista, CO
2010- Included in The Best of American Watermedia put out by Kennedy Publishing
2011- 1st place awards in Watercolor and Oil painting, AVAC Awards Show, Buena Vista, CO
*** Three trout paintings selected by Patagonia, Inc to be on shirts for their 2011 line.
*** A reproduction of one of her floral pieces included in 1800 Home Depot stores as a window covering 2006-2010.
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