Vera Russell Pottery 22K Gold Desert Poppies Cactus Flower Southwest Wall Art Each Vera Russell piece is an original work of art! We have others in this collection listed. This round painting, accented with gold vein, features lovely green cacti with beautiful yellow cactus flower blossoms. In the background is a desert landscape. Like all of Vera Russell's Original South Western Pottery, it has deep 22K gold trim and outlines. . It has an earthy sand blast like finish and the mountains are skillfully cut into and inlaid with 22k gold. This one of a kind piece is hand made by it's creator. Colors: Turquoise, Sand, Green, Yellow, Gold Measurements 14 x 14 inches Weight 4 lbs Shipping Weight 5 lbs Vera Russell Raised in rural Nebraska long before art was taught in school, I had done artwork all my life: painting signs for merchants’ windows, artwork for the school newspaper, and for my own pleasure. I bought oil paints with my first job out of high school and proceeded to teach myself to paint. For several years I was a young Navy wife, stationed in Monterey, California and Charleston, S.C., Scotland, and Spain. I was able to take lessons from artists in all those locations, and in 1972 I began selling my work (with encouragement from an artist teacher). Settling in Albuquerque in 1978, I opened a ceramic business and taught classes. Before long, I was putting my own artwork on ceramics and it became a wholesale business with 30 employees and accounts in 29 states, and co