PUNCHMAGAZINE.COM 79 wondrous blooms ramona-stelzer-art.com @ramonastelzerart ily resettled in Redwood City, Ramona initially worked in a converted bedroom before earning studio space in the Palo Alto Cubberley Artist Program. “I swear, I cried when I went to the same parking lot where I went to school to learn English,” she says. “To be there as an artist in residency felt like a full circle after 12 years.” Now fully committed to her art career, Ramona revels in the daily creative dance. “If you trust and just start walking,” she observes, “all of a sudden doors open up.” Actively embracing social media to reach collectors worldwide, she’s been profiled in a German docu-series, had her work spotlighted in Vanity Fair UK and garnered exhibitions at the San Francisco Art Market, the International Art Museum of America in San Francisco and the Salon International d’Art Contemporain in Paris. Represented by the Mash Gallery in Los Angeles, Ramona’s work is also being featured in the Netflix series Selling Sunset. And, from a private studio space in San Carlos, her large-scale pieces continue to blossom into distinct floral stories: Seasons of Existence, Petals of Light, Begin to Bloom Again, and her newest series, My Dancing Flower Garden. After feeling “boxed” by German culture (“Everything always has to be perfect, so it’s hard to take a risk or try something new.”), Ramona relishes the spirited nature of the Peninsula. “Moving here was the best thing that could ever happen to me,” she reflects. “I feel like I was meant to live here.” That positivity, “enduring hope,” she calls it, shines through in her paintings, and it’s not surprising that her oncefledgling English has evolved into poetry. Capturing the essence of her work, she writes, “Within a challenging life, her wings take flight, strength whispers softly in petals of light.” {home & design}
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