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It was my intent with this painting to stretch the four seasons across my composition, showing the parade of colors we enjoy each year. I used a row of crab apple trees that I spotted east of Boulder, Colorado, and started with the lime greens of early spring on the left, ending with the bare, snow covered branches on the right. The flowers below are the coinciding Colorado wildflowers that can be seen as the seasons change.

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, and 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. 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, both past and present. Light, shadows, rocks, water, mountains, canyons, wildlife and whimsy are all part of...