Salt Trees

Salt TreesShannon Westphal is a Maine based contemporary landscape painter who investigates emotion, line, and presence through place. About this collection: Permanent Impermanence The idea of impermanence allows us to appreciate when times are good and accept the hard times that will eventually pass. For me, nature has always been a constant. Nature holds the ability to jolt me out of my worry about the past or future and bring me into present mindfulness.

50 Things to Do in the Snow is the perfect illustrated guide to enjoying all that winter has to offer

Encaustic is the perfect medium for this purpose

the Glasgow School of Art

She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting and Drawing from the University of Georgia in 2013 and currently has a studio in Charleston

from peonies to irises

colorful and unexpected compositions of everything from stunning florals to the kitchen sink

This delicious premium luxury gourmet chocolate bar is made from Compartés signature milk chocolate and pieces of crunchy salted caramel as well as caramel and sea salt flecks throughout

The impressionistic and atmospheric nature of my paintings underscores the bittersweet transience of these moments

using recycled paper and vegetable-based inks

and explore areas like strengthening your mind

then re-complicated

from single-dish spots and traditional pasticcerias to fisherman cooperatives and upscale mountain eateries