Karen A Ruberry

About the Artist

Karen Raukko Ruberry grew up on the shores of a small, quiet creek in southeast Baltimore County, loving and enjoying the water and rural farm fields surrounding her childhood home. She still lives in northeast Baltimore County. The rural life of Baltimore County, Maryland and Pennsylvania are captured in her paintings, and her memories of life on the Chesapeake takes the viewer on a rambling tour through the region. She also paints flowers from her gardens, and gardens in the surrounding areas. Her interactions with art began with projects in elementary school and high school that included watercolor painting. She attended MICA, CCBC and graduated with honors from Goucher College with a B.A. in Art, and has a M.Ed from Loyola University. She has worked in education at the Walters Art Museum and later in the graphic arts, sewn and sold cloth dolls, and made handmade greeting cards. Mrs. Ruberry taught art at St. Ursula School in Parkville, MD for over 20 years, and home school art for the Y of Central Maryland. She returned to painting in watercolor when she retired, studying with James Drake Iams, Dorothy Bishop, and of late, Jennifer Kohn Murtha, Barbara Schmid, Susan Crouch and Shirley Jenkins. She is a member of the Baltimore Watercolor Society, Artist Compound LLC and Maryland Federation of Arts. Karen has shown her works through Artist Compound, LLC. at the Hotel Brexton show in Baltimore, won awards at Seven Oaks Center, Rosedale Senior Center, and the Maryland Senior Expo and the Maryland State Fair. She has had art work on display at the Delegates' offices in the State House in Annapolis (spring, 2017), curated by The Artists Compound of Baltimore, and exhibits (March-June, 2017 and March-June, 2018) at BWI Marshall Thurgood Airport, "Historical Maryland" and “Winter” through the Arts Council of Anne Arundel County . She has had a show at Launch Workplaces in Gaithersburg, MD November-January, 2018, curated by the Artist Compound. She took part in Art A Day 2018, exhibited at Joe Squared in Baltimore’s Station North. In the spring of 2018, her painting, “Autumn Valley,” was juried into the Overlea Artfest. In the summer of 2018, she participated in and exhibited with the Artist Plein Air Event in Ocean City, MD. In October/November she exhibited at Quiet Waters Gallery, Annapolis, MD with the Baltimore Watercolor Society.

Artist's Statement

Karen has been painting in watercolor most of her life, returning seriously to the media in 2014, after retiring from teaching Art. She loves to Plein air paint, portraying the landscapes in Baltimore County and surrounding Maryland, countries she has visited and places she would love to visit. She also loves to flowers, whether from her abundant gardens or some of the beautiful gardens in Maryland. She has recently begun painting some portraits, and continues to explore that path, incorporating her landscapes, nature and landscapes in her paintings.