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Spring Woods Notecard
Spring Woods “As winter fades, I like to search for the first signs of spring, which ambles north at about thirteen miles a day. That’s rather fast, so one must look for subtle clues. On sunlit hillsides, the treetops are dusted with the pink of forming buds, and beside the streams, weeping willow branches are…
Artist: Marcia Eames-Sheavly
Marcia Eames-Sheavly’s watercolors reflect a love of, and interest in, the plant world. As a horticulturist at Cornell University, painting gardens, landscapes and flowers represents a different perspective of that vocation, and provides her with the opportunity to view a garden, or a flower, in a more painterly light. Her watercolors are not grandiose, but they evoke a sense of place that is very personal.
At Cornell, Marcia creates illustrations for publications, book chapters, magazines, and exhibits, and her watercolors have appeared on the covers of six publications. She teaches undergraduate courses that explore plants as a subject of art, and plants used in or as art, such as living sculpture. She is the youth program leader for the Cornell Garden-Based Learning Institute, and has served as an artist in residence at a children’s garden in Michigan. Marcia has shown her work widely throughout the central New York region.