From Gramling, South Carolina, Rhett Thurman has been painting in Charleston for 53 years. Her work has been featured in national publications and is included in private, museum and corporate collections.
Thurman is the recipient of the 1995 Outstanding Alumna Award from Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she earned a degree in Studio Art. Her education includes further study in Europe and the United States, and, in turn she has taught workshops, nationally and internationally.
Thurman was one of 10 painters featured in "American Artists in Paris" in 2013 and she has achieved national acclaim for both oils and watercolors, winning awards from New York to California, She has exhibited with the prestigious American Watercolor Society, the National Watercolor Society and The Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club of New York.
In bold palette, her work offers an intimate glimpse at her life experiences. Thurman says: "While I admire paintings that have a compelling edge, mine are strictly about the spirit of the moment, dazzling light and color, my fleeting moment theme. Whether painting at home or abroad, a complicated sidewalk cafe or a simple slice of melon, my quest remains the same: pushing past what I've done before for a fresh look at light, color and shapes."