When Roberta, my youngest daughter, was 12 years old, she and I went to Athens, Greece. Every time we drove through the narrow streets of Athens and she looked up to Acropolis, she was just so fascinated by the sight… she wanted to draw the Parthenon. She tried to borrow some drawing paper from one of her cousins but he declined. Another cousin was more than happy to share some of his paper with her!! She was so happy…and yes, she drew the Parthenon. It was good, but for me, not knowing much about this kind of art, did not think much about it.
Through the years and seeing some of Roberta’s other interests, I did not realize she had a hidden talent!! For example, she took photography classes. She is pretty good at it. She took classes to learn Italian. She is also a wonderful poet and she has made us cry and laugh with of some of her beautiful poems. But the hidden talent was still hidden and needed to be revealed!! So, when she started 5 years ago to work with collages we thought, “oh Roberta has a new interest”, but we were wrong!! The hidden talent surfaced and flourished and cannot be stopped!! From the humble beginning of the Parthenon drawing on borrowed paper to many other types of art…that I would not know how to explain…she calls herself a Mixed Media artist. She works with beeswax, Artist Trading Cards, altered jewelry, painting lovely pastures, stone cottages, Irish Castles, even the Pyramids, self portraits, and flowers, and yes even Vincent van Gogh sunflowers…her passion. Actually, those are one of my favorites of her creations! Yes, I know, it sounds like a bragging, proud mama…and why not?? It is not everyday that a daughter would have three art pieces published in the well known art magazine Somerset Studio! And to Roberta’s surprise, and I may say delight, an article was written about her art work in our local newspaper, The Daily Republic. You may check it out yourself here…
Here are some of my favorites of Roberta’s art…Enjoy!!
Pen and watercolor sketch of Khafre’s Pyramid, Egypt, in a travel journal.
Hope, a painting on canvas for an Art for Autism fundraiser.
What a Curious Dream! an Alice in Wonderland themed mixed media piece…
published in Somerset Studio magazine, March/April 2010 issue
Flowers for Vincent, a painting inspired by Vincent van Gogh.
A Thankful Loving Heart, assemblage with canvas and found objects…
published in Somerset Gallery magazine, Summer 2011
The Painter’s Dream, mixed media art on paper, published in the Sept/Oct 2011 Somerset issue.
You’ve came a long way, baby!
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