Ryan Russell has taught painting and drawing in Virginia since 1992. He currently teaches painting at the Beverly Street Studio School in Staunton. He has exhibited widely throughout Virginia and the southeast, and has won many awards for his work. About his work, he says, “in general, I am drawn to the abstract features of the landscape. I look for surprising color and shape relationships and I try to capture the fleeting quality of light as it moves through space. I usually work on-site, favoring the process of seeing and reacting over any other, and I live with the inherent limitations of that process.”