"American Southwest"

Mixed Media Paintings by Mary Ellen Palmeri…artwork using her original specialty “Paper Dreams”, where she combines cut or folded paper with drawing and painting techniques. Her Southwest images include flora and fauna typical to the Sonoran desert area of Tucson, AZ, including saguaro and prickly pear cactus, coyotes, roadrunners, rabbits, and owls.

Originally these mountains were to be background for large figures in the foreground. As I got absorbed into the creative process the ‘background’ became the major focus of the piece. The figures eventually became riders through the vast expanse that had become the painting.

The dancing figure is Yukio, which means "Happy Hero". He is returning in celebration after meditating and visiting the sacred relics and writings held in the religious Buddhist shrine, known as a pagoda, which symbolizes the heights of

Inspired one morning by early blooms on a prickly-pear cactus in my Sonoran Desert backyard.

This beautiful state park is a natural home to more than 5500 acres of desert flora and fauna.

The various rich orange and red earth colors of the Sonoran Desert, and the intense layering of light reflections climbing up the mountains create a colorful background for this playful pony folded from metallic paper.

This campfire scene was inspired by a visit to a ranch outside of Phoenix, Arizona. It was my first experience watching an expert roper taking a break in the corral. After showing us several fancy maneuvers with his rope, he built a fire to make camp coffee for everyone!

"Cowgirl Sunset" reflects the diverse and intense colors reflecting across the Sonoran Desert in Southern Arizona.

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Cowboy in desert scene with dog and cactus
Origami cowgirl in desert scene with cacti and coyote
Origami cowgirl, purple mountains in background and origami 
      cacti in foreground
Origami cowgirl figure with origami silver horse in desert scene
Origami cowgirl and dog next to cactus with bald eagle on top
Desert scene of cowboy and campfire with mountains in backgroud
Origami cowgirl in desert with mountains in background
Origami cowgirl, cactus and roadrunner
Origami cowgirl, cacti, and cat in foreground






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