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Award-winning Irish artist Rita Oates describes her painting Mountains of Love
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Circles of needle-felted merino wool seem to float on a black silk background in this dramatic scarf
Beyond the Black and White World Scarf spo-enabled Three cheers for apparel that’sGrowing up between urban Kansas City and rural Co. Leitrim gave award winning artist Rita Oates a profound sensitivity to feelings of belonging, emigration, friendship, and separation. Living in Ireland since the 1960s, her work incorporates people, places, memories, and struggles, but always embodies hope. Her painting Beyond the Black and White World, reproduced here as a lightweight scarf, captures Rita's optimistic worldview as well as her deep