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Please note that the watermark in the lower right will not appear on any ordered prints or products (needed for on-line display only).

Featured is a unicorn sitting on a carpet of flowers with an array of many flowers, weeds, butterflies, a nesting hummingbird and a feeding hummingbird behind him. This piece was inspired by millefleurs tapestries of the Renaissance which more often than not pictured a unicorn that looked half-way between a white goat and a horse. Like the unicorns today, he is also a mythical creature.

In front of him is a young rabbit, not worried in the slightest about this large animal with a sharp horn.

The composition is bursting with colors, particularly pinks, reds and greens.

Some symbolism follows:

* unicorn: purity, innocence, the divine, enlightenment, magic. The unicorn has been known to swoon at the sight of a faire maiden who is pure of heart, and to even fall asleep in her lap, and to be an independent creat...

I have a bachelor's degree in Studio Art and a masters degree in Art Education. I used to be an art teacher and taught grades K - 12. In order to teach art in the public schools, I needed to learn a lot of mediums. I have carried this into my art studio as well, painting in one area of the studio and making altered digital photographs in another part of the studio. My primary mediums are painting, drawing, digital art, illustrations, cartoons, hand thrown pottery and relief sculpture. If you see pottery in my photographic work, it is my own hand-thrown piece. I have shown my work in galleries and through juried shows at art centers and museums. Some notables include The Delaware Art Museum, Haverford Center of the Arts,...