Rita Orr began work with serigraphs in 1982. Her method of silkscreen printmaking is spontaneous and perhaps primitive to idealists of the medium. Orr uses a one screen reduction process applying glue directly on the screen for the stencil and oil based ink to print the image. The result is a spontaneous interpretation purposely less controlled and more painterly.

"In my work the message is the importance of a center in life: home, family and friends, along with taking time for little indulgences, flowers, music, reasonably good wine and coffee! I think I was born an artist because at an early age I developed the idea that all things aesthetic are essential to human existence."

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