VARYA'S ART BIOGRAPHY

SELECTED SOLO AND JOINT SHOWS
* City Gallery, Charleston SC, (solo)
* Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston SC, (joint with Roy)
* Piccolo Spoleto, KKBE, Charleston SC, (solo)
* Jefferson Common Art Gallery, Philadelphia, (solo)
* Philadelphia Sketch Club, (solo)
* Montezinos Gallery, Philadelphia, (three person show)
Unitarian Universalist Church, Clearwater Fl., (group show)
*ART PSYCHOTHERAPIST
*PUBLISHED FIVE RESEARCH ARTICLES ON ART PSYCHOTHERAPY
*FOUNDER AND JOINT DIRECTOR, REGIONAL ART SHOW FOR CHILDREN,
NORTH PINELLAS COUNTY, FLORIDA
ENVIRONMENTAL ILLNESS:
In 1990, I was diagnosed with Multiple Chemical Sensitivities. At that time I had been painting with acrylic paints. and I became so sensitized to art materials that for years I could do no artwork at all. Even drawing with writing pencils caused a sensitivity reaction. Over time I became stronger, and was able to use children’s drawing sticks and school watercolors. Today, after painstaking avoidance of harmful chemicals, I am able to create pictures using Sennelier oil Pastels, Rembrandt colored pencils, guache and, most recently, walnut oil paints. There have been few art shows and work is slow because I can easily be resensitized, but I am emerging from that long dry spell. Now there is immeasurable joy in being able to do artwork again, expressing my ideas in the vibrant media available to me.
