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My camping trips to Lake Superior continue to inspire new work. This scene is the remarkable Pebble Beach at Marathon on the north shore of Lake Superior. I visited there shortly after a rain shower - what I call a 'soft' day. I loved the combination of vividly coloured stones and a misty background. I chose a low point of view for the composition to give the stones more prominence, and I chose the title because these stones are as breathtaking as jewels to me.

Whether she and her husband are exploring by RV, motorcycle, snowmobile, kayak, or on foot, professional artist Karen Richardson records memories with her camera and uses these images as reference for watercolour paintings. Having grown up in a rural village near Algonquin Park in northern Ontario, Canada, it is no wonder that Karen loves to paint dramatic, rock-filled scenery and intimate studies of nature. Her art captures realistic moments, to encourage viewers to pause and reflect on the astonishing but fragile beauty of our world. Since she began selling her artwork in 1986, more than 700 paintings have been acquired by private and corporate art collectors in 20 countries, and currently her work is represented by four galleries...