Renée Szostek

I create art in a variety of media, including pencil, watercolor, pastel, photography, printmaking, charcoal, and calligraphy. I also write poetry, which has won awards and been published, and I have studied several languages, including French, German, Spanish, Latin, Italian, and Old English. In addition, I play musical instruments, including piano, harpsichord, carillon, clarinet, flute, recorder, mandolin, violin, guitar, and viola, and I enjoy singing. Furthermore, I have a strong educational background in science, math, and engineering. I enjoy playing word games, such as Scrabble and Wordle, solving crossword puzzles, playing Go and chess, and collecting books, stamps, coins, postcards, rocks, shells, and a variety of other objects. In whatever medium I work, nature is usually my subject, whether I am portraying a single flower or animal, or a landscape. I admire the theme of this exhibit, namely, The Sweet Life, for I feel that this is the life that everyone should pursue. I feel that everyone should experience Joie de Vivre and live La Dolce Vita most of the time. In my art, I like to explore how nature, imagination, literature, and science collaborate together to enrich our lives.