She works in a wide variety of colors - greens, reds, blues, yellows, purples, grays and browns - and through her patterns produces artwork that has a rich, three-dimensional effect. Sometimes, her designs are patterns that she meticulously repeats other times, they are free form. She applies a mixture of paste and pigment onto acid-free paper and then creates a design using a variety of tools, many of which she has fashioned herself. Hyder is a master at making decorative paste papers, a European craft stretching back more than 200 years. “Kindergarten teachers are the creative ones,” she added with a laugh. “We had to knit and paint and make toys,” Hyder said, surrounded by colorful artwork in her North Brookfield studio. In her native Switzerland, the training involved learning all sorts of crafts. When it came time to settle on a career, Elisabeth Hyder chose to teach kindergarten.
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