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I took a photo of a rose in my garden. I was interested in the various allusions to roses in literature and folklore. So I created a surface of tissue and paint on watercolor paper. I did a detailed sketch of my rose and enlarged it. Then I added it and other collage elements to the surface to create this work.

I am a retired elementary school teacher and my residence and studio are in Fulton, New York where I taught for thirty-one years. After I retired in 2000, I returned to the State University College at Oswego to pursue art. The work which I am exhibiting is the result of mixing various media. My interest is in creating unique surfaces using tissue paper, packaging paper, matte medium, glue, pastels, watercolors, acrylics, etc. My intent is to marry the more intuitive and emotive surface with a technically detailed drawing. I create a drawing and a surface and then begin the task of melding these two elements to create the finished piece. At times, the surface is the instrument of inspiration; at other times it is the image...