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I intended to lay aside my annual struggle to grow hollyhock in Maine until our son gave me a seedling. I check it often to see if it is alive and thriving. Last year's plants all winter killed or died during the summer heat. What grew like a weed in Colorado does not thrive here. Because of that, this year's painting looks like some of the ones that grew in Colorado, six to nine feet tall and covered with blossoms. If this year's plant grows, I may have to paint another hollyhock in the fall.

Bonnie Young connects to rural life and landscape because they reflect her roots. She discovered the love of painting the light and shadows and their effects on her subjects as she studied nature. For her, painting is an artistic articulation of life captured in watercolor or digital creations. Watercolor allows her to build depth and detail through layering glazes. While still attending elementary school in a one room schoolhouse in the Nebraska Sandhills, she began painting. For most of her adult life, she lived in the midwest and west. She studied art at Kansas State University, the Canton Museum of Art in Canton, Ohio, and the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Colorado. In Colorado, she studied under Janet Nunn, an award...