About

Roberta Combs IAPS/MC, PSA-MP, SFCA, MPAC, CIPA/F, NPS, MPAC-EP

Roberta Combs is a representational painter who lives with her family in Pitt Meadows, BC in Western Canada. Soft pastels are her favorite medium to work with. The rich, buttery texture and the clean velvet colors of pastel evoke an immediate response that is pure pleasure to develop. They allow simple scenes and common items to be transformed with beautiful light and delicious drama. The pure pigment creates radiant color.

Roberta Combs is a Spilsbury Medal award winner in the Federation of Canadian Artists. Her award-winning work has been seen in International Artists Magazine, Southwest Art Magazine and in the Pastel Journal Magazine. She has exhibited throughout Canada and the USA including in such prestigious locations as the Butler Institute of American Art, The Federation Gallery, the American Art Company, The National Arts Club Gallery and the Salmagundi Club in New York City, The Vose Gallery in Boston, and locations that include Palm Springs, Los Angeles, Seattle, Toronto, Albuquerque, Venice and Paris.

Roberta Combs has been awarded Senior Signature Status in the Federation of Canadian Artists and the Northwest Pastel Society; is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Portrait Artists; and is an Eminent Pastelist of the Pastel Artists Canada. Roberta has also been designated a Master Pastelist in the Pastel Society of America. She is the only Canadian to hold this distinction. She is the third of only four Canadians to be awarded the signature Gold Medal of the International Associations of Pastel Societies (IAPS), recognizing her designation as an artist of the Master Circle. This symbol of excellence identifies IAPS artists who have received one of the most important honors in the pastel world.

 Roberta’s work can be seen in the recently released North Light book,  PURE PASTEL.