Britt Freda is one of the newest RARE Gallery family members! She will tell you that she has been painting for as long as she can remember. Britt received a double degree with honor in fine art and writing from St. Lawrence University in Ne York. In addition, she studied painting, drawing and photography at Lorenzo de' Medici Institure of Art in Florence, Italy and by invitation for intensive residency study at La Cipressai in Montagnana, Italy under internationally acclaimed South African artists Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky. She has taken the occasional sabbatical from painting to build other creative visions. She has lived and painted in Taos, NM and Aspen, CO for much of her life. Britt presently resides where she can walk to the salt water in Seattle, WA with her young family. She an be found taking her small children on the ferry to Vashon Island to paint in a mall studio that overlooks Quartermaster Harbor and to eat lunch with the ost gracious and generous woman she knows, her mother!