Primarily a self-taught artist, Rich has studied pastel and oil painting with Albert Handell, Gil Perry, Stuart Shils (at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Art), and Virginia McNeice. She has been the recipient of four Artist Residencies at the international Vermont Studio Center, and an Artist Development Grant from the Vermont Arts Council and the NEA. She was also awarded an art residency on Great Spruce Head Island, Maine, at the former home of Fairfield Porter. A native of Alabama, Rich lived most of her life in Connecticut and now resides in Sandgate, Vermont, with her husband, the painter Harry Rich.

Painting in pastels and oils, the focus of her work is the landscape of rural Vermont, eastern New York, coastal Maine, and farmland in Alabama, as well as the unique interiors of Maine island cottages.

Rich is represented by Gallery Wright in Wilmington, VT; Camden Falls Gallery in Camden, ME; L. Wicks Fine Art in Saratoga Springs, NY, and The Atchison Gallery in Birmingham, AL.