Rita Asfour is the child of an inventor who encouraged her natural curiosity.  This curiosity and her eventual worldview would deeply inform her art.  She began her sojourn as an artist as a book cover and magazine illustrator.  Maybe as a result of her intense and eager curiosity, she rejected the convention of studying a subject and it’s surroundings before painting it, instead Rita’s impulse led her in the pursuit of capturing her very first impressions onto the canvas.  

This passion to capture the fleeting strands of primary experience naturally informed her painting style, called Bravura or the art of painting with conviction.  She is said to pursue the fleeting goal of capturing an image not like a camera, but how her heart sees it.  She paints quickly, boldly, with forte.

Asfour patterns her technique in the spirit of the impressionists much like Renior and Van Gogh, applying fearless brush strokes throughout all her creations.  She prefers to paint the human form and revels in the study of children and their innocent experience.  Her work is also unabashedly sensual and her brushstrokes often describe the female nude.  Her canvasses also include landscapes and flower studies yet, even in these works, one can often find small human figures inhabiting the background.

Exhibiting in such exclusive galleries a the Modern Art Gallery in Japan and the Lumina Gallery in Soho, New York, Asfour’s work is consistently inventive and avariciously collected.  Her distinguished collectors include Ella Fitzgerald, Publisher Otis Chander, and “Wonderful Life” actress Donna Reed.