"Rowena has also remained a wholistic, whole brain perceiver, processor and producer, despite the turn in many of our societal knowledge centers toward specificity, specialization and reductionism. I have been drawn to her work because she asks the "big question," as philosophy calls them, while she inclusively addresses pan-societal views that so few can even comprehend, let along document in word-smith theory AND skillful visual template.  The resulting products of her intellectual reveries, her unique forays into the comprehension of knowledge, are not only about what something means, but what "stands under" that meaning, while, still engaging the artist's eye for essence of the aesthetic principles of beauty, symmetry, harmonics, fairness with balance and truth, with justice.  For example, one of her “posters” has especially intrigued me, among many.  In high school I noticed the odd shape of the chart of the elements in chemistry class, and played with a better image could be envisioned for our studies.  Rowena went ahead and designed and produced a circular chart of the elements which makes much more sense, given the structure of atoms, and their circling electrons, given her mathematical specificity for atomic structure, which is incorporated into her visions."

—Roberta Schomaker-Beal, art-therapist