Artist Bio

Ginger Penaluna, a local artist, studied art at Mankato State University and at the University of Northern Iowa. She was an art teacher for many years in the Waterloo Community Schools and has received awards for printmaking, watercolor and mixed media. In recent years, she has worked primarily in digital photography.

This collection of thirty-nine works is the result of a year-long study devoted entirely to flowers. All of the pieces have been created within 2004, and are photographs taken from the artist's backyard in Cedar Falls and also more remote places such as Montana, Hawaii, New Zealand, and Chile. Ginger was inspired by the natural elegance and intricate detail of these flowers, which she sees as suggestions of God's fingerprint on the universe. For this reason, she calls the collection "Reflections on God's Garden."

The artist uses a four-step process beginning with a digital photograph taken with a macro lens. She then manipulates the image using a program on her computer. Then she has the images blown up and printed onto canvas, and finally she paints on the canvas. As far as she knows, and after many "Google" searches, no word yet exists for this four-step method which she has currently coined "Penalunatage."

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