November 4, 2008

Lalita Cofer

• Title: Artist. Cofer uses watercolor paint and pen to create images
on rice paper, then tears the painted paper into bits and applies the
pieces in a collage on canvas. She places hand-stained tissue under or
over the bits of paper, making the work appear to have a layer of colored
glass.

Cofer, who had a painting purchased by Academy Award-winning
actress Meryl Streep at the auction Arts for ACT (Abuse Counseling and
Treatment, Inc.) in August, primarily depicts the landscapes and wildlife
of the Caribbean and Mediterranean.

• Residence: Cape
Coral

• Career highlights: Becoming a member of Sanibel Island's
The Tower Gallery, where she has about 20 pieces displayed; receiving an
offer to show her work from the owner of The Tikal in Grenada, where Cofer
regularly has about 10 pieces on display; using a unique medium.

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Other interests: International travel, including visits to family in
France and a yearly trip to the Caribbean; reading; art museums.

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Why do you do what you do?: "To communicate these wonderful feelings of
special places in the world."

— Barbara Boxleitner, Special to
The News-Press