Spring Creek at Talleyrand Park

In 2023 I partnered with ClearWater Conservancy to create a collection of twelve pastel paintings to raise money and awareness for conserving more of our central Pennsylvania landscapes. I hiked along as an artist-in-residence with ClearWater's Centred Outdoors program. I painted this view of Spring Creek downstream from the bridge and falls while demonstrating my pastel painting at the Bellefonte Arts & Crafts Fair in front of Art a la Carte. The reflections of the streamside willows in Spring Creek always attract my eye, especially when the sky is so blue and the sun is on its way down, throwing warm light onto the weeping fronds overhanging the water.