About the Artist
Alyssa exhibiting her monotype prints, paintings, and mixed media works in Explorations of Blue in the UK - September 2022
“Color is the essence of everything. For me, a world without color would be a world without emotion, without passion. If a painting is a novel, then color represents the words. Just as an author can write a story in many ways using different words, color provides the skeleton and building blocks of my artistic process.”
As a thirty-year professional artist, teaching artist, and art activist, Alyssa DeLaBruere has dedicated her career to capturing and preserving the natural landscape through plein-air painting, printmaking, collage, and photography. Alyssa is equally passionate about sharing her love of the visual arts and art history with others, teaching all types of art to emerging artists both young and old.
Hailing from Northern Vermont, Alyssa spends time “chasing the painter’s light” across the United States and Europe. For the past decade, Alyssa spent her summers teaching art in the South of France in the beautiful Ardéche Mountains. In 2019, Alyssa headed to Taos, New Mexico, for a year-long artist’s sabbatical culminating with a solo exhibition of her work pairing the American Southwest and the rugged landscape of Southern France. In August 2020, Alyssa moved to London to join the TASIS England Visual Art Team as a teaching artist, department coordinator, and gallery director. During her three years in the UK, Alyssa continued her explorations, traveling to remote beautiful landscapes in Ireland, Cornwall, France, and Italy. This work culminated in two exhibitions in England in 2021 and 2022.
Alyssa attended the University of Vermont where she studied visual art and art history, concentrating in painting and printmaking. Later, as a single mother of three, she continued her education further at Johnson State College, where she obtained a certification in art education. As a teaching artist, Alyssa combines her love for art and artists with her passion to ignite and nurture the creative talents in others. In 2023, Alyssa returned to her roots in the beautiful Green Mountains of Northern Vermont where she and her dog Murphy have their studio overlooking the shores of Lake Memphremagog.
Artist statement
I am continually fascinated with the complexity, the resilience, and the ever-shifting nature of the landscape. By drawing a simple line across a piece of paper, a scene emerges: sky above, land or sea below. Though simple in its construction, the seascape, landscape, or skyscape can emerge as the most complex and powerful composition of all as I strive to translate all of my senses of the wind and weather, noise and silence, light and shadow, energy and stillness of the symphonic sublime onto a painting panel or printing plate. Try as I might, capturing the immediacy of the moment and sense of this place in this time continues to be my elusive muse. This is the greatest of motivators for an artist as it drives me to deconstruct and reconstruct these elements and echoes of what I see, hear, and feel in the presence of nature’s wonder..