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move the paint around. Eventually she<br />
puts the canvas on an easel where she<br />
spends a lot of time looking at it. “This<br />
is when the work speaks to me. It tells<br />
me what it needs, what it wants to be.<br />
Sometimes I paint all day from one direction.<br />
Then I turn the canvas around<br />
and it says to me, ‘This is the way I’m<br />
supposed to be,’” she laughs.<br />
Siemienski works in acrylic primarily.<br />
“I used to do lots of watercolor and oil,<br />
but got headaches. Acrylic dries fast,<br />
which is good because I paint quickly.”<br />
Her large industrial studio within a factory<br />
in Port Richmond is a feast for the<br />
eyes with large vivid abstract paintings<br />
everywhere, one more marvelous than<br />
the next.<br />
Summer’s End, featured in this article,<br />
is a 48 by 48-inch acrylic on canvas that<br />
reveals various shades of orange sky. A<br />
I see this blank<br />
surface and create<br />
something out of<br />
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nothing. It truly<br />
amazes me.<br />
green landscape of trees appears to run<br />
across the work dividing sky from land.<br />
In the foreground there are many colorful<br />
shades and shapes. “I paint without<br />
fear. A big canvas excites me. I never<br />
worked this large until I was commissioned<br />
for it. I love the challenge!”<br />
Initially trained as an illustrator at<br />
Moore College of Art and Design, she<br />
first painted ‘literally,’ from her intellect.<br />
But soon she was driven to paint from<br />
her ‘right brain’ emotional side. “I let myself<br />
go and painted whatever appeared to<br />
me. I see this blank surface and create<br />
something out of nothing. It truly<br />
amazes me.”<br />
Married 52 years, Rita has four<br />
grown children and lives in Elkins Park<br />
with her husband, Jerry, a retired inves-<br />
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