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About the Author
Born in Munich, Germany, Flo Singer was raised in a family of eccentric musicians that gave her a broad background in music, literature, and the arts. She studied fine art at the "Akademie Der Bildenden Kunste" in Munich.

In 1950 Flo immigrated to the United States where for 12 years she lived on sailboats, cruising the Florida and Bahama waterways. During her many trips overseas Singer has traveled and painted in most countries in Europe.

In 1964, Flo studied with Hilton Leech and in 1967, with a scholarship from the Sarasota "Fine Art Institute", painted under Phil Guston, Syd Solomon, Marca Relli, and James Brooks. Singer also took courses with Al Brouilette and Judi Betts.

Annually for the past 18 years Singer has had many exhibitions in Europe. These galleries included the "Palais Palffy" in Vienna, Austria, the "Wasserschloss" in Wittringen, Germany, and many exhibitions in and around Munich where her expressionistic art is understood and appreciated. Her watercolors, graphics and batiks have always been very well received.

Singer's work covers animals, landscapes, flowers, human figures, all done with fantasy and imagination. Occasionally she experiments with abstract art. Her principal media are watercolor and all types of graphic arts such as litho, etching and serigraph. Occasionally she paints with acrylics.

Flo Singer lives in Sarasota, Florida.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

Assuming public acceptance of the anthropomorphic view of animals - comics, animated movies and TV, etc. - Flo offers in these drawings and paintings her unique humor as inspired by animals. She holds humor as a most important aspect of living, as you may well infer from this collection of art.

Her catalog of natural history includes specimens with or without teeth, claws, tails, snouts, beaks, feathers, gills or brains. It includes those who swim, slither, creep, jump, fly, dig, cuddle or bite, whether they should or not. it includes hybrids obviously slouching toward extinction and others mutating toward a survival of the fittest in future environments not yet understood. Several of her creatures appear to be of mysterious ancestry and suggest experimental genetic programs which nature has somehow overlooked. She may continue to do so. But such is the fate of the visionary. Not everyone can bring you such perception. So enjoy!