Nature's Portraits

"Hollyhock Survivor"

"Hollyhocks are not native to Argentina, but they are loved for their hardiness. For years we have thrown seeds here and there so that their sturdy blooms could grace our hills. Many more die than survive, but this beauty lives on an exposed mound that overlooks the river, reappearing every year to greet the summer."

12"x18" Graphites

Signed Limited Edition of 50, Giclee

"Patagonia Flower of the Sun"

"While building my house deep in the countryside of Patagonia, Argentina, I noticed every year in the rubble of construction a beautiful sunflower growing. I wanted to memorialize her resilience and persistence, knowing that soon she would have to give way to a veranda that would cover her ground. Before cement was laid, we scattered her seeds to the wind in hopes that her progeny would soon take her place. "

12"x18" Graphites

Signed Limited Edition of 50, Giclee

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art by sally ann ranney

"Olympic Cypress"

"Always attracted to the mysteries of trees, I found this one standing alone guarding a weathered shoreline of Olympic National Park. Its barren limbs testified to many years of bending to the shape of the wind, and beckoned me to come close for a while."

18"x12" Watercolor

Signed Limited Edition of 50, Giclee

"Tree of Hearts"

"I felt this tree long before I saw her. Her presence was so strong I stopped mid-step, holding my breath. I was walking a trail that traces the Chilean-Argentine border, high in the Andes of Patagonia. Wondering what I was sensing and about to encounter, I proceeded slowly and cautiously. Rounding a bend, there she stood. My heart first recognized this guardian of the forest before my eyes and brain could register her immense size, age and beauty. So awed, I voluntarily dropped to my haunches, watching and listening silently. Abandoning the hike, I spent the rest of the day embraced by her limbs and leaves cherishing the opportunity to have met her. Three years later, too old to withstand a heavy storm, she lay down after some 600 years."

13.5x14.5" Graphites

Signed Limited Edition of 200, Giclee

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