Journey Work of the Stars Walt Whitman believed that a blade of grass was a common miracle. I believe the same about a nest found empty after the season passed. This one’s found its home, but I’d love to know: what’s your ordinary miracle? #natureart #hopeandhealing

Watching gesso cover "Mercy Seat" might feel like a small funeral, but it’s not really an ending. I painted this piece a couple of years ago, not long ago I knew its time had come. In the woods, a fallen tree doesn't just disappear, it becomes the ground new life grows from. #hopeandhealing #slowart

Jubilance is only six inches square. You could hold it in one hand. But small doesn’t mean simple. Layers of images and color, a hint of pattern ghosting underneath, and a little bird tucked into bare branches so quietly you might miss her at first glance. #natureart #hopeandhealing

I get it. Green lawns look neat and tidy and we've been trained to see them as a sign of care and respectability. And instinctively, green means water, which means life. #LawnAlternatives #NativePlants #DroughtTolerantGarden

“Traveling Companion #1” — 3” square, one of the last mini originals in this series. She’s a Pipevine Swallowtail, one of the small creatures I watch for on my trail walks. We’ve lost about 80% of the world’s insect population in the last twenty years. #naturematters #insectapocalypse #miniatureart

Working on the last of my mini originals with colored pencil, one tiny panel at a time. Here's what's been hitting me while I color: we've lost about 80% of the world's insect population in the last twenty years. Not a typo. Eighty percent, 20 years. #naturematters #insectapocalypse #miniatureart

Comment below if you can see the dragonfly! This is “Seasons Change” and if you look at the background of it, you can just barely see the shape of a dragonfly faintly behind the main imagery. #slowart #hopeandhealing #softfascination

Maybe it’s all the news. Or your to-do list. Maybe it’s just life in general that feels overwhelming. Something I learned by having a reactive dog is that taking them to a place & just spending some time sitting & doing nothing can help them feel safe & calm. #hopeandhealing #slowdown #natureheals

“Passion” has all kinds of little details in it that can pull you in and keep you discovering things every time you walk past it. Artwork like this encourages something called soft fascination, a state of effortless, gentle attention that captivates the mind without overstimulating it.

Could you use a little more peace in your life? My mission is to bring hope and healing to people who feel overwhelmed. Art and nature both help us to feel more calm. #healingart #naturelovers #biophilia #slowliving

My mission is to bring hope and healing to people who feel overwhelmed. Art and nature both help us to feel more calm. If you could use a little more peace in your life, let me know - I get it. #healingart #naturelovers #biophilia #slowliving

Seriously, why would you wear headphones while you’re out here? I see people doing it all the time and I just don’t get what could be better than the soundtrack of nature? #GetOutside #NatureLovers #HealingSounds

Making plans.

I love to incorporate real leaves & flowers in my artworks that hide in plain sight. It’s one of the details that can reveal itself to you as you live with one of these pieces & how my artwork can be like living with a piece of nature. #MixedMediaArt #ArtForYourHome #HopeAndHealing

Nesting Box #8: a blue jay who never migrates, a tea set for guests who never arrive & a walnut shell keeping its secrets.Once it’s gone, this series is retired for good. A little reminder that nature is home. Where would this live in yours? #NestingBox #MixedMediaArt #ArtForYourHome #HopeAndHealing

The natural world is at the heart of everything I create. So when I started realizing what insecticides were actually doing to the creatures I love most, I couldn’t look away. I used to think using insecticides around the house was no big deal. #SaveThePollinators #NativeGarden #InsectApocalypse

Blake understood that eternity hides in an hour & holiness hides in ordinary things. “Heaven in a Wildflower” holds a nest with a crab, a lizard among dried flowers, a butterfly beside a speckled shell, small worlds asking to be noticed. #MixedMediaArt #NatureHeals #HopeAndHealing

I used to think people were separate from nature. Society is good at keeping us isolated from it, so I had this unconscious idea that nature was just the wilderness out there: the greenbelts, the plants and animals that thrive when people leave them alone. #NatureLover #EcosystemHealth #WeAreNature

I am a compulsive creator. Sharing hope and healing through my work is at the core of everything I do, but living that out well sometimes means making decisions that simplify and protect the life that makes the art possible. #MiniOriginals #MixedMediaArt #LastChance

I didn’t kill my milkweed plants! Last fall I planted three native milkweeds in hopes of someday welcoming monarch butterflies to my garden. One by one, two of them disappeared and I assumed the worst. Then this spring one came back… #HopeAndHealing #MonarchButterfly #NativeGarden #KeepHopeAlive

A place doesn’t need walls to be home. I built this little house with a clothesline strung inside it, hearts hung out like laundry, an oak standing steady in an open field, a bird overhead. It’s my way of saying nature isn’t just something we visit. #mixedmediaart #natureart #slowliving

Studies show the sensory experience of grass can be stress-reducing, forcing you into the present moment, relaxing the nervous system, & lowering stress hormones. Ginty gets it. Get outside. Find some grass. Roll around in it if you need to. No judgment. #NatureHeals #GetOutside #DogLife

Two butterflies pulled toward the same wild bloom, wings caught mid-tilt like they haven’t quite decided where to land. There’s a pull in nature that doesn’t need justifying - toward color, toward light, toward each other. #MixedMediaArt #NatureAsMuse #SoulNourishingSpaces

Fireworks aren't stupid. But some people are. I recently saw a post claiming fireworks should be abolished because of their impact on wildlife & the environment. Hey, I care deeply about nature. It's at the center of everything I do. #FireworkSafety #CaringForNature #JustBeSmarter

Hope Springs Eternal A skull. Wildflowers. A map worn thin with travel. This piece holds all three because that’s how hope actually works, not despite the bones, but right alongside them. Life ending and life pushing through, in the same frame. #MementoMori #HopeAndHealing #SlowArt

Some days the creek does all the talking. When the world feels like too much, this is where I come. Not to fix anything or figure it out, just to sit, breathe & let the water & birds do what they do best. You don't need a plan. You just need a few seconds of this. #NatureHeals #CreekWalk #BeStill

Nobody asks a grasshopper for advice. Maybe they should. He’s been sitting still for days, patient, deliberate, completely unbothered by the chaos around him. There’s a dried pressed flower bud nearby too, like even he knows to pause & notice the small things. #HopeAndHealing #NatureWisdom #SlowArt

I love tiny things:tiny creatures, tiny plants, tiny art. Something about small scale that makes details feel even more precious. But sometimes simplifying means making decisions that aren't easy. So I've decided these will be the last Mini Originals I make. #MiniOriginals #MixedMediaArt #LastChance

There’s a succulent in my garden most people never look at twice. String of Buttons isn’t big or showy. It stacks tiny green coins along a stem, quietly, patiently, one after another, the kind of plant you’d miss unless you slowed down enough to look at it. #ArtThatHeals #HomeSanctuary #SlowArt

This is why we went to Filoli. Meet "Rose Wonders” - a magnificent troll built from reclaimed wood by world-renowned artist Thomas Dambo. We came specifically for her, and she did not disappoint. #FiloliGarden #ThomasDambo #ArtAndNature