Anna Soltys is truly a multi-disciplinary artist.  An artist of the spoken and written word, a creator of building-sized dazzling cultural, iconic and community inspired mosaics, a heartfealt songwriter with a voice that melts one's heart and mind, an inspiring teacher, and painter of not just scenes, but scenic wonderments.  One cannot know this artist without being touched by her very presense and changed by her essence.  

 

How and why Soltys made the conscious change in her art from surrealistic dissection of the internal journey through interpretations of the ID, to an interest in capturing the essence of a physical space, is rooted in her love of travel, new spaces: internal and external, people and new relationships to other's and oneself.  An exploration in the space between the old and the new.  This new body of work, unlike her past work, is drenched in layers of color, illumination of the inner minds of memory.