Babette Reynolds is a North Carolina contemporary landscape painter.  Babette’s work explores the interplay of light, horizon, and sky, with a focus on mountain landscapes.  Babette’s personal and family history is deeply connected to the Appalachian Mountains, beginning with her childhood in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York and, since her relocation to North Carolina in 1980, continuing with her subsequent love affair with the Blue Ridge mountains, and the towns and people of Western North Carolina. For the last 25 years, Babette has spent part of each year in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and the nearby Grand Teton Mountain range.  She is an avid skier, hiker and photographer and has extensively explored both the Blue Ridge and Grand Teton mountains.  Many of her works are inspired by the mountains, valleys, skies and light of the Blue Ridge and Grand Teton mountains and other regional landscapes.

 

In her paintings, Babette uses oil, mixed media, and cold wax to create richly textured and layered abstract landscapes and geometric abstracts.  She has studied painting in workshops with many nationally known artists, including Andy Braitman, Rebecca Crowell, Pamela Caughey and Jeff Erickson.  Babette has also studied metalsmithing, enameling and forging at the Penland School of Craft in Penland, North Carolina.  

 

Babette is an attorney, a financial services risk management executive and a veteran who served as a military intelligence officer in the US Army. She lives in Charlotte with her two children.  She and her fiancé David Newton are building their forever home (with a studio for Babette) in Asheville, North Carolina, where they also plan to open an art gallery.  When she retires full time, she and David plan to split their time between Asheville, North Carolina and Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

 

In September 2024, Babette started “The Path Forward” collection of paintings, inspired by the Blue Ridge Mountains in Western North Carolina.  100% of the net proceeds from The Path Forward Collection are donated to support Hurricane Helene Relief efforts in Western North Carolina.