Artist Rhonda Pettit Anderson explores and celebrates her cultural heritages of both the Western-European and the Eastern-Japanese art world. She is a color-expressionist who loves to both paint in water media and draw in graphite and colored pencils. She explores all subject matter, particularly the natural world as well as people and figures. With a narrative in mind, which can be lyrics from a song, lines from a book or a movie, or a personal life story, she composes a painting using color and/or texture to invite the viewer to connect to the universal feeling of the situation shared by all human beings. She is influenced by many artists, especially the post-impressionists and the Japanese Nihonga style of painting. She has an Associates Degree in Fine Art and has taken many workshops with master artists. Throughout the years, she has participated in local and International exhibitions and have won many awards for her work.