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Roberta Oliver is an award-winning artist living in northern NJ with her husband and two children. Here she experiences the beauty of changing seasons offering her endless inspiration for her work. Roberta also spends time on the West Coast of Florida, which influences her artistic style toward coastal scenery, vibrant flora, and the play of light on water.

The central theme in her art is her love of nature. This inspires her to capture intricate details of plants, animals, and landscapes with delicate fluidity and transparency you can only get from watercolor painting.

Roberta’s artistic journey has been shaped not only by her hands on personal experience but also by the guidance and inspiration she has received from many great mentors along the way.

Roberta is a Signature member of American Watercolor Society (AWS), Transparent Watercolor Society of America (TWSA), North East Watercolor Society (NEWS), New Jersey Watercolor Society (NJWS), and a Distinguished Signature member of Florida Watercolor Society (FWS-D).

Roberta’s work has been in numerous publications of Splash, The best of Watercolor at North Light Books and Artist Network Magazine. She was featured in the Franklin Lakes Magazine and her work appeared on the cover of Connection Magazine, NJ.

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Nearly as tall as a person. The garden phlox variety David (and a few others) can stretch up to 180 cm with good care, hiding garden fences and creating living walls.

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Artist: Anne Cotterill
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A fragrance that thickens at nightfall. The scent of phlox intensifies at dusk. This is no accident: the plant uses it to attract nocturnal pollinators — hawk moths.

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Artist: Larisa Shabunina
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An unexpected ingredient. The young shoots and flowers of some phlox species are edible: they are added to salads for their light, spicy, slightly peppery taste.

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Artist: Olga Minkina
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The flower of family happiness. There is a folk belief that luxuriantly blooming phlox bring harmony into the home and ward off ill-wishers.

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The chameleon flower. Many varieties change their shade over the course of the day. Blue and lilac phlox become noticeably bluer towards evening, and look different in overcast weather than in bright sunlight.

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The word «phlox» comes from the Greek phlox, meaning «flame.» Carl Linnaeus gave this name to the brightly colored wild species whose flowers seemed to blaze in the sun.

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The scientific name of the raspberry is Rubus idaeus, which translates as «the red bramble of Mount Ida.» According to an ancient Greek myth, the berries were originally snow-white, but the nymph Ida, who was gathering them for the infant Zeus, pricked her finger and stained the fruit forever with her blood.

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Artist: Natalia Shaykina
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Before the advent of sugar factories, raspberries were the primary raw material for making sweet syrups and pastila in monasteries. Monks used its natural pectin to thicken the confections, and took dried berries with them as a source of vitamins on long journeys on foot.

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Artist: Denise Walser-Kolar
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Denise Walser-Kolar is a botanical artist and instructor who specialises in watercolour on vellum.
Her work is prized for its sensitivity, luminous colour and timeless Old World quality, and is held in the permanent collection of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation.
Her love of botanical art was seeded early. During childhood visits to Vienna she stood captivated before Dürer’s Bouquet of Violets in the Albertina Museum. “I bought a postcard of it and kept it on my bulletin board,” she says.

After graduating from the College of Visual Arts in 1982, she spent 12 years as a graphic artist at Mayo Clinic, then worked as a freelance illustrator, creating menus and portraits. At the same time, her younger son Garrett struggled with severe dyslexia. She became his vigorous advocate, making a two-hour commute each morning to a special school and spending her days painting decorative items to pay tuition.

A birthday gift in 2003 - a class at the Minnesota School of Botanical Art - changed everything. “There was a blizzard and I arrived 30 minutes late, all stressed out,” she recalls. “The class was magical. I thought, ‘I love this, I’m happy,’ and I hadn’t been for a very long time.” Within three years she became an instructor at the school. A class with Kate Nessler introduced her to vellum.

Curator Lugene Bruno says, “Who she is as a person and her work, there’s no separation. She captures the essence of whatever she’s painting.” Art dealer Susan Frei Nathan adds, “The way she looks at nature is quite romantic - an intimate, magical connection.”

Her accolades include a silver-gilt medal from the Royal Horticultural Society and the ASBA’s Diane Bouchier Artist Award for Excellence in Botanical Art.