A life-long resident of Utah, Bonnie Posselli paints directly from nature, finding inspiration in the American West, Europe and Central and South America. Well known for her lyrical trees and often powerful paintings of the canyons and mountains of Utah, Ms. Posselli leads workshops and is an invited artist at the annual Maynard Dixon Country. Her accomplishments, to list just a few, include Best of Show at the Maynard Dixon Country, a Utah Governor's Mansion Artist Award, and the 2002 Arts for the Parks Grand Canyon Purchase Award. "And there were the trees, clumped together in patches of woods left standing between stretches of fields--the sunlight, broken and spotted, streaming through tangled branches, illuminating trunks, bent, twisted and straight, that cast shadows across the ... ground." - quote by Bonnie Posselli from the book. This book is written by John Keahey, designed by Connie Disney, and features an introduction by Todd Posselli, son of a very remarkable painter.