Excerpts from:
the PAPER, June 2002
Paint like her, Artist's canvasses reflect the creator
by David and Mary Verzi
…Feminine archetypes spring from the earth, rocks, and trees", said Saul. At her easel, working from photographs and her memory, Saul incorporates images for fine-featured modern models with the potent spirit of her imagined, untamed, forest found prototypes.
...Though occasionally using watercolors, Saul usually paints in warm, soft-toned acrylics glazed with vibrant oils, yielding fragile gut full-blooded femininity, both sweet and strong. Saul's tender tough nature and the mild-wild breeding of her debutantes is reminiscent of the Anglo-Italian, Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82).
...Of unsettled personal sensibilities, Rossetti, inspired by legendary goddesses, reflected his complexity in depicting women who were romantically delicate and, simultaneously, mystically robust.
...Since Saul has instinctively mated fairytale illustration with that which examines the ancient female psyche, it is no wonder she and her women seem ready to run with both the wolves and Little Red Riding Hoods.
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