Stop in anytime throughout December to view dreamy works in watercolor by Michele Rojas Rivera.

Michele Rojas Rivera is founder of Artistic Horizon (a local nonprofit art center). Rivera is originally from Brooklyn, NY and currently lives in Lemont, PA. She graduated from Kingsborough College and Penn State's School of Visual Arts. Her passion is to pass on her enthusiastic drive to create through her teaching art. She is currently retired, but still teaches workshops in the Central Pennsylvania and Maryland area.

Rivera enjoys sculpting with clay or painting with watercolors, her favorite technique is wet on wet watercolor techniques because it allows the paint to have a life of its own. She feels that what is learnt and the growth through the process is more important than the final/finished artwork. She's attracted to human figures and portraits by the beautiful shapes (both geometric and organic) that seem to come together with my paint or clay to relate a rhythm of emotions. Using the human form as the focus, she hopes to make an emotional connection with the viewer.

For purchase inquiries or to see more of Michele Rojas Rivera's work, find her on Instagram, @michelerivera.art or email her at mxr194@gmail.com.