Artist Faith Rumm has been interweaving creativity and her love of nature since forever. As a child with a violinist mother, a mountaineer father and three brothers, backpacking, climbing, messy craft projects and playing music were all a part of everyday life. Later she worked in national parks as an interpretive ranger, and national forests as a wilderness ranger, always working on her art. Her eventual specialty as natural history illustrator and interpretive designer grew directly from these roots. RummStudio displays grace protected areas both nationally and internationally. Today Rumm uses her artistic talents to create fine art and the occasional interpretive display.
Faith currently runs the RummStudio Upstairs Gallery in downtown Mariposa, just outside of Yosemite National Park. The historic building was once called the Louvre Hotel back in 1890. Faith loves to say her artwork hangs at the Louvre! Here you can peruse art created by Faith Rumm and other excellent local artists. A wide variety of art is available, from cards and prints, to small "en plein air" paintings, to large-scale museum-worthy artworks.
"I paint as a means to renew my personal connection to the earth and it's creatures. Each piece I produce is not so much a landscape as it is a 'portrait of nature', be it a grand scene, storm, cliff, tree, animal or bird. It is a great gift to spend my life creating art from my source of inspiration, and share it with others."
California Art Club, Oil Painters of America