Queen of the Garden Canvas Print

"Queen of the Garden"

An impressionist digital oil painting of the Japanese Kwanzan cherry tree that blooms every May in my Chester County Pennsylvania garden. I had a cherry tree like this in my backyard when I was a child and it was very dear to me. When we moved to East Nottingham one of the first things I planted was this tree, which was nothing more than a 2 foot long stick it at the time. Now she fills our second story master bedroom window frame-to-frame with her blossoms each spring. Seventeen years after planting her, she has definitely earned her title as "Queen of the Garden." Please visit my Land Escapes art gallery to see more artwork of my beautiful little corner of the world.

Copyright 2020 Susan Maxwell Schmidt, all rights reserved.

My mind lives in a rather strange world of its own, in a state which I tend to refer to as "delightfully twisted." Through my art, which I am vehemently determined to continue to create with as little outside influence as possible, I work tirelessly to interpret the concepts my mind creates in a moment-by-moment barrage of ideas that always seem to come faster than I can realize them in a tangible form. Though my artwork over the past 40 years has evolved from my early days of shooting on film to manifesting itself in many different forms of more contemporary media, from the delicate transparency of digital watercolor, to the no-holds-barred starkness of noir digital photography, to even the fanciful abstract-turned-conceptual properties...