Paintings from America's National Parks Calendar

The paintigs featured are form original paintings of wildlife and landscapes of the National Parka by Wanda Zuchowski-Schick. The front and back cover are oil paintings. The twelve monthly paintings are watercolors. After 30 years an Art Educator, Wanda Zuchowski-Schick now devotes her full attention to her career in the fine arts, and becoming recognised as a painter of the National Parks. She has exhibited her paintings and prints, primarily, throughout the Midwest. In 1997 she was awarded an Artist-in-Residency at Isle Royale National Park. As a guest of the park service she spent 16 days in isolated wilderness pursuing her art. In 2002 she was awarded another Artist-in-Residency at Voyageurs National Park. Again for two weeks she worked in the wilderness. She tries, through her paintings, to share her view of the unspoiled expanse of land that words cannot describe. Being alone out in the vast expanse of our National Parks humbles her and creates an inner peace. Her paintings are realistic and very personal. She wants only to express her impression of the wildness and beauty of the land