As a native of North Carolina, RL Troutman has had the distinct pleasure of living in a unique biome, a deciduous rainforest. This has allowed her, as an artist, to explore the colors and textures of the unique natural world around her. 

RL Troutman has been inspired and fascinated by the staccato of plant life emerging from a bog, keeled scales on reptiles, deep colors of a humid summer forest, gradation of color in a fig, and how feathers have different purposes and textures that reflect that. She looks for natural items in the world to use as tools and as inspiration.

The natural intersections of art and science bring the world into everyone’s vision. It is RL Troutman’s purpose to illustrate visually how the two are one.