Guardian Canvas Print

This tree grows beside the path through the Heartland Forest in Niagara Falls, Ontario. A rather stern expression in this delightfully enchanting place, I see it as a reminder of the serious responsibility embraced by Heartland Forest with their goal to "preserve and educate."
All proceeds from print sales within my Heartland Forest gallery will be donated to their ongoing efforts.
You can check them out here: http://www.heartlandforest.org/

While art, whether it be drawing or painting or creating in clay, was my first love all through my younger years, after high school I went into a secretarial course at college. The following year I left school altogether, married and started my family. As a stay-at-home-Mom I found my creative outlet in crafts of all descriptions, and in cake decorating and the 'confectionery arts' which I also taught for more than 25 years from my home. Many of my greatest friends today were introduced to me as they sat at my dining room table decades ago in those classes. About 2008, I set aside the icing bags and picked up the paint brushes again! At the same time I began taking pictures with the intent of using them as reference for future...