"To call Minnesota artist Wall-Romana a painter of visionary botanical art is too clinical for her results, and too modest for her aspirations. She is a painter of exquisitely detailed flowers and vines, leaves and grasses, with an occasional fallen feather or crumpled bird woven into blowsy bouquets of roots and twigs that seem to drift through space. Sheer veils of soft color -- apricot, creamy ivory, ice blue -- flutter behind her blossoms and some- times frame distant vistas of low mountains, mossy meadows, limpid seas. .........." (Mary Abbe, Minneapolis Star Tribune, February 25, 2011)

 

Special Thanks to the George Billis Gallery in Los Angeles, CA and to the artist for the loan of the artwork. And thanks as always to the Associated Student Body of Clark College for funding this program.