Cabin at Long's Gardens Canvas Print

Long's Gardens was once a flourishing Iris garden, ablaze each springtime with the splendor of every color of Iris in bloom imaginable. It has since fallen into disrepair, but the local artists still find it a wonderful site to paint because some poppies have now taken the place of the iris. My favorite part of this painting is the reflection on the cabin window.

Anne Gifford is an award winning artist and the eight time poster artist for Colorado's Bolder Boulder 10K Memorial Day Race, one of the largest road races in the United States. She began her career as a silkscreen artist. After 25 years of printmaking, Anne now works with watercolor, building successive layers of color to create her vibrant, rich, and detailed paintings. She has lived in Colorado since 1976 and finds inspiration in the natural beauty of the Rocky Mountains. Her paintings, like a pictorial journal, have chronicled her journey thus far. On her many walks and hikes throughout the area, she is always on the lookout for new imagery. She relishes the depiction of a magic moment and the evidence she finds of the pulse of life,...