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Charmagne Coe is a self taught Arizona artist, currently residing in the Flagstaff. She creates surreal paintings with watercolor, ink and pastel. In each work, characters and abstract atmospheres collide, entwine and are inseparably relational. Automatism and nature are her most important guides. Her artistic process is dependent upon staying completely receptive and vulnerable to where the creative verve leads her. Memories of fairy tales, science fiction and mythology reinvent themselves in many of her compositions which create a fusion of past, present and future, a kind of timelessness. Her most recent works are concerned with the themes of pathos and transcendence. Drawing was Charmagne’s first love. Six years ago, she began to experiment with new methods of expressing the contour line with other media. After trial and error, there emerged a wild relationship between watercolor, ink and pastel. It was fascinating and challenging. At that time, she found her innermost thoughts were echoing those of the surrealist, Andre Breton, and his contemporaries. Her drawings became painted menageries. She continues to be entranced by the juxtaposition of the three media and she still draws daily in ink.