About Zoe

I thought about my art journey from the time I understood the concept to now. I first started on it through poetry and decoupage. I loved writing about my thoughts on numerous subjects, then using coffee and burning the edges of the paper to attain a parchment-like look, then gluing the poem to wood. I started in my teens and then moved on to the art of writing in novel form when I discovered romance through my wonderful, talented grandmother who gave me The Sheik to read when I was sixteen. She loved the movie based on the book and starring Rudolf Valentino. She was an amazing self-taught seamstress and crochet artist in her own right. She made her grandchildren clothes, crocheted doilies, and even made my Barbie doll clothes. I miss her fiercely.

Art has always caught my interest, and I tried to pinpoint what was so compelling about it all. I finally narrowed it down to color, the way the composition moved me, and the beauty of the image(s). I strongly identify myself as a person in love with beauty, and the word for that is a philocalist. A word that comes from the Greek roots phil- and kalos, which means “lover of beauty.” I’ve also discovered that I’m a colorphile, a word I made up, since there isn’t one that I could find that fit. I think of it as a person who is in love with color. But if we were to apply the same Greek roots to a lover of color, would it translate to philochromalist? Haha.