Nora Bushong Larimer of Buena Vista, CO grew up in a farming community in Illinois where she studied at Illinois State University and Principia College and graduated with a B.A. in studio art. Best known for her watercolors she has spent time painting on location all over the U.S. from rural and coastal Maine, to the forests of Pennsylvania, the Amish Farms of Ohio to Colorado, Wyoming, and New Mexico as well as abroad in Italy, S.E. Asia, Mexico, and Belize, C.A. This broad experience has helped shape her bold, fresh watercolors and oils of natural landscapes, florals, and fish. Nationally recognized, Nora has won numerous awards at juried shows and festivals throughout the U.S.