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Victoria L. Mowrer

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Victoria Mowrer is a multi-dimensional artist, storyteller, magic maker, and lover of all things wild and wonderful. She believes beauty, in all its myriad forms, has the power to heal. A passion for exploration, experimentation, and truth-seeking has been with her since childhood. Growing up as an only child on her grandparents’ farm in rural Pennsylvania gave her the freedom to seek out adventures in nature that called to her spirit.
During that time, she witnessed her grandfather being excommunicated from his Mennonite community for purchasing a television. That experience sparked a wariness of authority and religion and fueled her already inquisitive nature to wonder about complex ideas from a young age.
Always enchanted by the innumerabl Victoria Mowrer is a multi-dimensional artist, storyteller, magic maker, and lover of all things wild and wonderful. She believes beauty, in all its myriad forms, has the power to heal. A passion for exploration, experimentation, and truth-seeking has been with her since childhood. Growing up as an only child on her grandparents’ farm in rural Pennsylvania gave her the freedom to seek out adventures in nature that called to her spirit.
During that time, she witnessed her grandfather being excommunicated from his Mennonite community for purchasing a television. That experience sparked a wariness of authority and religion and fueled her already inquisitive nature to wonder about complex ideas from a young age.
Always enchanted by the innumerable delights and mediums for creative expression this world has to offer, she’s painted, printed, photographed with her cherished Holga, played in a gamelan orchestra, owned a small counter-culture cafe, served as a professional chef, designed gardens, arranged flowers, and sculpted with clay, stone, and gourds.
For pioneering a technique of pressing flowers into encaustic art, she was invited to Japan as part of the Nagano Olympics’ cultural exchange where she spent two weeks showcasing her art and teaching classes about her techniques. She currently loves singing with a community chorus and as backup for a local blues band.
She’s lived in Puerto Rico, Massachusetts, California, and New York, and studied garden design in UK with John Brooks and pebble mosaic in Chicago with Maggie Howarth. Ever in pursuit of adventure, art, stories, and herself, she has found her way back to her roots in Lancaster, PA, where some of her greatest stories are being unearthed as she plows the fields of her past.
The modest gourd has accompanied her as a muse, friend, and guide for more than half her life. And now, she’s written an illustrated folk tale about the stars, community, and her beloved gourd companion. What began as an oral recitation atop a giant gourd as part of her one-woman show, “Restlessness and Reverie,” has evolved and expanded into a wondrous tale of love, loss, and reclamation. As with everything in her life, the creation of this book carries the heartbeat of her mantra, Be Brave and Believe. ...more

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Can you tell me more about how you created the artwork for your book? It is really beautiful!

Victoria L. Mowrer Hello Teri.
I am delighted that you enjoy the illustrations in my book, and will try to explain a little bit about how they were created. It certainly …moreHello Teri.
I am delighted that you enjoy the illustrations in my book, and will try to explain a little bit about how they were created. It certainly was not a straight forward process! I wanted to stay true to the history of the gourd and how it was used to record stories and history by carving into its surface. That led me to decide to do the illustrations in woodcut. I learned that was too hard on my hands and moved to linocut. After pulling loads of images, I reached the part of the process where I needed to digitize them. At the same time, I needed a new computer and opted for an iPad. Lo and behold, there was a program on there called Pro Create. I tried it out to see what it was all about. One thing led to another, and eventually finished/cleaned up many of the images using that program. As I went through that process, a style emerged that suited the story perfectly. I do not know if I will ever use the program in the future but, it helped me produce images that were able to be printed with deep rich black results ... which I wanted! I hope this answer helps you to understand a very long and winding process!
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Victoria Mowrer liked Holly Labrasca's review of The Dreaming Gourd: "This is a wonderful, enlightening, fun, fantasy story for all ages about the importance of taking care of our earth which is also illustrated completely by this very creative and talented author. This is a book worth enjoying over and over again as i" Read more of this review »
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Victoria Mowrer answered Teri Rider's question: Can you tell me more about how you created the artwork for your book? It is really beautiful! Hello Teri. I am delighted that you enjoy the illustrations in my book, and will try to explain a little bit about how they were created. It certainly was not a straight forward process! I wanted to stay true to the history of the gourd and how it was See Full Answer
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