Valerie Fowler works in oil, painting mostly botanical images seen through a filter of mild strangeness; like the setting of a mysterious story between tellings. There’s a hint of claustrophobia and fearsomely seductive beauty in a world too vast and too minute to hold still. She grew up surrounded by art in Houston, Texas. She has a B. A. in Art from the University of Texas and lives and paints in Austin, Texas.