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<td align="center" valign="middle" bgcolor="#9999CC"><p><span class="style5">When I inquired what her<br />
“specialty” is, Edna
Searles, a Minden,
Louisiana native,<br />
</span><span class="style5">replied with a
chuckle and the slightest Southern
drawl, “You ask me what I am, but I<br />
don’t know what I am. <br />
I just say,‘artist’.”</span><br />
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<td height="23" valign="top"><p class="style3">The prolific Clarksburg resident illustrates<br />
poetry books, paints majestic<br />
murals and revealing portraits, and<br />
drafts countless musical scores. The<br />
recipient of an International Gold<br />
Medal from the Accadamie d’ Arte,<br />
Rome, Italy, Searles’ lengthy resume<br />
includes domestic as well as international<br />
honors. Her work has been featured<br />
in numerous one-person<br />
exhibits, including at the Strathmore<br />
Center for the Arts.<br />
Searles works in cycles; whatever<br />
strikes her fancy at the moment. She<br />
is relentlessly (and joyfully) compelled<br />
to create.</p>
<p class="style3">InSight: Where does all this creative<br />
energy come from?<br />
Searles: I don’t know. I’ve done this<br />
all my life—creating things. When I<br />
was very young, I made a wooden doll<br />
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<td align="left" valign="top"><p class="style3"> out of a two by four and leftover shavings<br />
from my father’s woodcarving<br />
project. I used the wooden curly Q’s to<br />
make the doll’s hair and a leather belt<br />
to make moveable arms and legs.</p>
<p class="style3">Then, another time, I used materials<br />
lying around the house after my dad’s<br />
plumbing project. I was younger than<br />
ten years old and I remember watching<br />
him use a soldering iron to melt<br />
wire. I was amazed. I immediately<br />
saw something wonderful. One day,<br />
after he’d gone off to work, I grabbed<br />
that iron and plugged it in. I patiently<br />
dropped liquid metal a drop at a time,<br />
and made a tiny Nativity scene and<br />
crèche. It took me nearly all day.<br />
That wire must have cost my dad a<br />
fortune. But when he came home that<br />
evening, he looked at the Nativity and<br />
said, “That’s beautiful.” His reaction<br />
gave me the idea that I could do something<br />
beautiful. <a href="artistsamongus706.pdf">continue</a> <br />
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<h3>© Edna Searles 2006 </h3>
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