Who learns will love and not destroy,
The creature's life, the flower's joy.
--Henry Mercer
Attention is the beginning of devotion.
--Mary Oliver
My best inspiration often comes outdoors.
My best parenting, too, has happened in the woods--no credit to me, all credit to the woods.
So I was very happy, delighted really, to be the artist interpreting and recording a year-long collaboration between two parents, two school-aged kids, and nature. Each parent and child had a season to be the collector of favorite images from outdoor family adventures. I loved looking through their eyes and considering the personal and universal meanings in the images they chose.
For each season, each person, I made a relief print, each 8"x12" and printed over watercolor.
Barrows Winter
11/2019
Barrows Spring
11/2019
Barrows Summer
11/2019
Barrows Fall
11/2019