Artist, writer and illustrator Rita Roberts lives and works in Monte Vista, Colorado. Her artwork is indelibly tied to the San Luis Valley, surrounded by the cycles of the upper Rio Grande, which flows a mile from her studio. Born in Nebraska, the artist still gravitates toward farmsteads and big, stormy skies. Her landscapes exist in the mountain west, near the Continental Divide, but her eye finds the flatlands: single trees holding their own against the wind and outbuildings that out-weather the elements of nature. Rita started her undergraduate studies at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and received ...