Into her fields and flowers, often painted up close and horizonless, she incorporates extraneous materials such as straw, silk or mud to achieve a textured, earth-like quality, and the circles that sometimes appear at the center of her works unmistakably connote the oneness of woman with nature.Snyder and Baltimore-born Josh Dorman both live in Brooklyn, N.Y., and Dorman worked from 1992 to 1993 as Snyder's studio assistant.