Description

Celebrate Vermont: The Trees Have It…for Life

Title:  Maple Harmony
Artist- Karen Cole
Value: $130.00

Description: Maple Harmony

This 8.5×11″ original watercolor painting is created using high-quality, lightfast paints on 300lb cold pressed archival cotton watercolor paper. It is mounted on a 11×13.5” solid birch wood panel with an acrylic nonbreakable glass and ready to be hung. 

This piece titled Maple Harmony is a tribute to Vermont’s iconic sugar maple trees—beloved not only for the sweet sap that becomes maple syrup, but also for their quiet, enduring presence in our landscape. Inspired by the early morning light filtering through the sugar maple in my front yard, this artwork reflects the beauty and vitality that trees bring to our world.

Trees symbolize the sacred exchange of carbon dioxide for oxygen—offering life, breath, and balance. The Sanskrit symbol for “breathe,” gently hanging from the wind chimes, is a reminder to inhale and exhale with mindfulness, inviting a sense of calm and equanimity.  This symbol has been a necessary personal mantra in my life this year.

In Vermont, the trees truly have it—for beauty, for breath, and for life.

Meet the Artist                   

Karen Cole is a self-taught freelance artist who creates custom art, including pet portraits, in her farmhouse in Essex, Vermont. She has been a Vermont educator for more than 27 years and believes in lifelong learning. Cole Farmhouse Art is a result of modeling goal setting for students at school.  

Her artwork portrays a more contemporary realism while balancing a sense of illustrative playfulness and spirit in many mediums. Watercolors are the primary medium where she layers paint by ebbing and flowing between tight and loose control of the pigment. Other mediums used include pastel and colored pencils, acrylic paints on canvas, and pen and ink.

Karen is an animal lover and a pet portrait artist. She especially loves dogs who share unconditional love beyond the human spirit. Her commissioned pet portraits are tributes to a life well lived and loved. Portraits show the character of an animal through its eyes, body language, or the color choices selected.  You can find examples and details about booking a portrait on her website www.ColeFarmhouseArt.com

Follow her social media for up-to-date information @ColeFarmhouseArt