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You can see this original watercolor in the collection of the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics in Madison, WI. Prints of the work are available here.

"My visual concerns run the gamut from careful study to poetic, symbolic and sometimes political representations of nature and human nature." Helen Klebesadel is an artist, an educator, and an activist. Born and raised in rural Wisconsin, Klebesadel is best known for her environmental and women centered watercolors. Helen's watercolors push the traditional boundaries of the medium in scale, content, and technique. Her paintings range in size from the intimate to the monumental. She creates paintings that are transparent watercolors on paper, starting with detailed drawings and developing the images with layer upon layer of color washes and dry brush technique mixed with occasional areas of wet-into-wet spontaneity. She paints until...