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VALLEY — Roxanna Fuller will have some of the more unusual artworks that are will be on display at this coming weekend’s Fall Into the Holidays show and sale presented by the Valley Arts Council. She’s into mixed media, and most of her paintings are three dimensional.

“It’s amazing how she brings it all together,” said Valley Arts Council President Suzie Britt. “She has one painting of a woman looking over a brick wall at the sea that’s especially good. It almost like you can reach out and touch that wall.”

Roxanna fashioned the wall out of some cardboard she attached to the canvas

Roxanna grew up in Lanett but has lived most of her adult life in Valley’s Langdale community.

“I have lived close to the Iron Bridge for a long time and love it there,” she said.

She went by the name Ledora when she was young. When she was young a photo of her and her brother Melvin Adamson appeared in The Valley Times-News. They were both playing pee well football at the time in the Lanett Recreation League. It was really unusual at that time for a girl to play football at any level.

It’s becoming more and more common these days for school-age girls to play flag football.

Roxanna loves animals. She features them in some of her paintings.

“I could never live on a farm,” she said. “All the animals would be my pets. I  now have seven cats and two dogs at home.”

She paints lots of deer. She has a grandson who is into deer hunting, and she’s given some of those paintings to him.

Roxanna has done some creative things with gourds. She will have some of them on display at the show.

“I like to paint the things I enjoy and what other people enjoy, too,” she said. “I visualize things in my mind, and it comes out on canvas when I’m painting. This started when I was a child. My mother had a painting of Jesus in our home. I was in awe of the face and the eyes. The way that painting touched me had a big influence on my art.”

There are some religious themes in her artwork. She likes to paint angels and country churches.

Roxanna has some grown children. Daughter Tiffany O’Hara is in her forties. She has a son, Jeremy, who’s 24. Tiffany’s daughter Amanda is married to Nick Gagnon, a former star basketball player for the Lanett Panthers.

Nick and Amanda have two daughters, Julia and Elizabeth.

They have lived abroad in places like Hong Kong and Slovakia.

“I love to fly,” Roxanna said. “I visited them when they were in Hong Kong and in Slovakia. They are back in the U.S. right now, and I am glad. I’m especially glad they are no longer in Hong Kong. It’s part of China now. Nick and Amanda are now in Massachusetts. They are closer, and I should be able to see them.”

Britt is highly complimentary of Roxanna’s 3-D art.

“She has done some excellent work,” she said. “It’s worth coming to the show to see it. Hopefully, seeing the kinds of art we will have on display this weekend will influence others to be creative and get into their self expression in the world of art.”

The Fall Into the Holidays art show and sale will be taking place Saturday, November 2nd and Sunday, November 3rd in the big gym inside Valley Community Center.

Up to 60 artists from the west central Georgia-east central Alabama region will be displaying their artworks. The Saturday portion of the show will be taking place between the hours of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET. The Sunday show will be from 1 to 4.