Rhonda C. R. Burton was born in the Midwest, her family moved to Los Angeles in the early 1960’s. She always knew art was something she would pursue. After college, she began to paint and teach watercolor and sell her work. Her work was shown and accepted into a number of notable artistic organizations, such as The National Watercolor Society, and Women Painters West just to name a few.

In the late 1980’s, she put her art career on hold to work in the corporate world supporting her two young children as a single mother. It took nearly 30 years for her to make her way back to creating art, this time through photography and mixed media. Her imagery revolves around the beauty of the garden, focusing on color, repetition of pattern and texture. This is the subject matter where she finds comfort, as she feels nature and the garden has calming and restorative properties. 

Within her body of work, photographic images are printed on fine art paper and hand embellished with color pencil or pastel. She often completes the piece by adding rice paper to her images. They are then mounted on wood panels or canvas and framed by acrylic sheets. In her current work, she is exploring the use of collage and mono prints inspired by the Japanese aesthetic of Wabi-Sabi; the art of imperfection.