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MICHELLE TRACHTMAN

As a child I loved to sit and color and play with paper dolls! Eventually I
craved doing something more creative. I fell in love with working with fiber
and stitch. I learned to needlepoint, to make traditional hooked rugs, fabric
collage/art quilts and art dolls.More recently I’ve wanted to connect more with
Spirit through my artwork and started making spirit dolls. This series theme
changed many times and ended up being about aging. Creating this way is
freeing and has added to my desire to work with natural elements, mixed
media, and sculptural creations.

SARAH TREANOR ENSO CIRCLE CONTINUING RESIDENTS

I’m a mixed media artist and writer from Northeast Ohio. I have a deep
curiosity about the moments of transformation in our lives… the times
of endings and beginnings and what we as humans choose to do with FLORIDE BARTELL CALIFORNIA
them. Transformation encompasses so many things, from grief and loss
and sometimes anger, to trust, self love, acceptance and joy. Having GAIL BYRNES MASSACHUSETTS
experiences a great deal of loss personally, I am always exploring my SUE CONNER CALIFORNIA
own times of change in some way through my work, whether overtly or
in some subtle underlying tone. JOANNE F DESMOND MAINE

KATHERINE DYER MINNESOTA
STAN UNSER
NANETTE RAE FREEMAN ILLINOIS

I’ve been making artwork since my retirement in 2015 and am HARLEEN OSBURN CALIFORNIA
influenced by multiple class instructors including Michelle and Lyn
at the Enso Circle. One class taught me to photo transfer using HEATHER TINKHAM MINNESOTA
dissolving paper. After learning oil painting, I started using that to
finish over the photo transfers. Now I use Photoshop, a larger printer,
and various mixed media processes including encaustic which I
learned from Michelle.

DORIS VASEK

I have always been lucky to have “my room.” It and I have changed over
the years. Most of my life, I had been a fiber artist…sewing, quilting,
weaving. The magic for me was always the colors and textures. Then
came painting. Years of realistic watercolors became oils. Using cold wax
medium with the oils gave me colors and textures. It also gave me actual
sounds and expressive movements as I paint. This is why I can say, most
days, you will find me happily working away in “my room” in Rockwall, TX.

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