Artist Phyllis Fannin finds solace in nature and particularly the forest. The calm of the natural world offers her a way of understanding life’s cycles, and its ever-changing rhythms, in its own own unspoken language. The forest communicates beyond cultural concepts and barriers. “Still Standing”, is a series of intaglio engraving prints, that speaks to the close connections we make between family and friends.

Artist Statement:

I find solace in nature and particularly the forest. The calm of the natural world offers me a way of understanding life’s cycles, and it’s ever changing rhythms, in its own unspoken language.The forest communicates beyond cultural concepts and barriers.

My “Still Standing Suite” of tree portraits isolate natural segments of reality that serve as metaphors for the resilience of the human spirit in surviving the innate challenges and inherent conflicts in the passage of time. Glorification of these natural treasures offers reflection on our human journey.

“Still a Family, Still Standing Suite,” speaks to the close connections we make as a family and friends. We may go in different directions, but there is a path that returns us to our origins. The branches of the trees are like dendrites, tree like nerves in our brain, that carry information.