Roberta's Serape © Scarf is inspired by the natural colors of the Utah desert which include many tones of rust, ocher, sepia and gray from the dramatic rock landscape. The canyon country also offers bright blues of the desert sky along with violets, pinks and gold from the wildflowers. These hues Roberta uses as accents to sparkle the earth tones.

The patterns are directly painted with more saturated versions of the predominate hues of each scarf. The zig zags, wiggles, dots and scallops combine to coordinate the colors and give the scarf an ethnic flavor, perhaps Navajo, perhaps Mexico, Africa or even India. It all depends on the colors.

Roberta produces her scarfs and silk paintings at the Textile Arts Studio in Ogden, Utah, a 90 year old home which she converted to an art studio in 1990. She loves working on silk because of the luxurious quality and the fact that the silk dyes have a vibrancy unobtainable in other artist colors. She teaches with the Textile program at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.