Paula Busch

Paula Busch is a Bay Area native now residing in Chico, California. She has been creating art for over 45 years and has exhibited both regionally and nationally. She has been a studio art instructor at Butte College for 27 years. For the past 12 years Paula has been working in the Encaustic medium, a process using hot wax, resin and pigments. She finds it mirrors many of the techniques she used in printmaking.
Her work is in the collection of The Encaustic Art Institute in Santa Fe, NM. The Turner Print Museum, Museum of Northern California Art, Odyssey Winery and North State Radiology in Chico, California, Renown Health in Reno, NV, Kaiser Permanete in Sacramento, and Ruths Chris in Del Mar as well as many private collectors.

B.A. Painting, University of California, Berkeley, Ca.
M.A. Printmaking, California State University, Chico, Ca.

Additional post graduate studies:
CSU Summer Arts program, California State University, Humbolt, Ca.
Classes at Kala Institute of Printmaking, Oakland, Ca.
Classes at the Mendocino Art Center

"Obsession" Blue Line Arts, Roseville, CA. 2019
3 Person Show, Orland Art Center, Orland, Ca. 2019 "Persistence" Juried show at the Museum of Northern California Art, Chico, Ca. 2019
"Three printmakers" Shasta County Arts Council Gallery, Redding, Ca. 2017
Group show, Pence Gallery, Davis, Ca. 2017
One person exhibit "Wax, Paper, Scissors" 1078 Gallery, Chico, Ca. 2016
Visual Metrics" The Turner Print Museum, Chico, Ca. 2016
One person exhibit, "Japan" James Snidle Fine Art, Chico, Ca.
One person exhibit, "The Encaustic Effect" Butte College Art Gallery, Oroville, Ca.