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When I look at sunflowers, my memories lead me back to a small girl decorating mud pies with the brilliant yellow petals of the sun. I traveled up and down the gravel road to school and back, skipping, stooping, and smelling the chocolate centers of the flowers along the route. Then fast-forwarding, I see yellow faces streaming as I travel across Nebraska and Kansas to attend a boarding school. Many years later, acres of sunflowers turned their giant faces from east to west in Colorado, following the sun every Friday and Sunday as I drove to and from Denver International Airport. Last fall, I took my grandsons to high school in Maine and again saw acres of enormous sunflowers creating a golden hillside as they turned with the sun. I wanted to jump from the car and run through the field like a child letting the scratchy stems move across my fingers as I hid in the beauty of the flowers. Instead, I bought a bunch at the store, put them in a vase in my kitchen, took photos, and paint...

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...