NANCY DIRUBBO
A New England Painter
After a long and fulfilling professional life in health care, Nancy Dirubbo is now focusing on her passion for art. She paints in the style of traditional realism and has studied with Johnnie Liliedahl, Elizabeth Robbins, Shanna Kunz and John MacDonald. Preferring oils, she uses light and color to capture the serene in a still life and the dynamic energy in landscapes. She paints in her home studio on Gilmanton New Hampshire.
Influenced by the Lakes Region of New Hampshire and the coast of Maine and by the many well-known and not so well-known artists she has met along the way, she also draws on her travels throughout France, Italy, Germany, Russia, Lithuania, the Azores, Cuba, Kenya, Finland, Sweden and the Dominican Republic. She attended French Art School in the Limousin and painted plein air at the same locations as Monet in the Creuse Valley.
She is drawn to still life. “In a world that is anything but still, a still life painting allows us to pause, reflect, and deepen our understanding of the world around us and perhaps even within us.” Landscapes ground her allowing outdoor observations to translate into contemplative mood and connectiveness.
She is an associate member of Oil Painters of America, the New Hampshire Art Association and the Boothbay Region Art Foundation. She received third prize in the Lakes Region Art Association’s annual art show in 2017 and has exhibited in the Belknap Mill, Frates Canal Street Studio, both in Laconia, NH, Vynn Art Gallery, Meredith NH, the Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery, Portsmouth NH and Boothbay Regional Art Foundation Gallery in Boothbay Harbor, Maine.