Environmental Visionary & Strategist
Skilled Moderator & Speaker
Consultant | Businesswoman
Author | Artist | Musician
Art
Click an image to show description.
Patagonia Flower
While building my house deep in the countryside of Patagonia, Argentina,
I noticed every year in the rubble of construction a beautiful sunflower growing. I wanted to memorialize her resilience and persistence, knowing that soon she would have to give way to a veranda that would cover her ground. Before cement was laid, we scattered her seeds to the wind in hopes that her progeny would soon take her place.
12" x 18" Graphites
Signed Limited Edition of 50, Giclee
Tree of Hearts
I felt this tree long before I saw her. Her presence was so strong I stopped mid-step, holding my breath. I was walking a trail that traces the Chilean-Argentine border, high in the Andes of Patagonia. Wondering what I was sensing and about to encounter, I proceeded slowly and cautiously. Rounding a bend, there she stood. My heart first recognized this guardian of the forest before my eyes and brain could register her immense size, age and beauty. So awed, I voluntarily dropped to my haunches, watching and listening silently. Abandoning the hike, I spent the rest of the day embraced by her limbs and leaves cherishing the opportunity to have met her. Three years later, too old to withstand a heavy storm, she lay down after some 600 years.
Rainbow
trout are exceptional creatures. This particular
one we call “The Big Easy”. He likes
to hang out in shallow waters near shoreline rocks.
If caught, he is always released. I am fortunate
to have such an accessible model.
12" x 18" Graphites
Signed Limited Edition of 50, Giclee
Hollyhock Survivor
Hollyhocks
are not native to Argentina, but they are loved for their
hardiness. For years we have thrown seeds here and there
so that their sturdy blooms could grace our hills. Many more
die than survive, but this beauty lives on an exposed mound
that overlooks the river, reappearing every year to greet
the summer.
12" X 18" Graphites
Signed Limited Edition of 50, Giclee
Rock Study
Lombardi poplars in the background were imported by early settlers in Argentina. They are used as windbreaks and to line pastures and paddocks, making beautiful patchwork quilts of the ranches (estancias). They frame this stylized Graphites study of a rock formation near the Trocoman River.
12" x 18" Graphites
Signed Limited Edition of 50, Giclee
Aspen at Otter Creek
These
trees live high in the Colorado Rockies on the ramparts of
the Eagles Nest Wilderness Area. I sat drawing, encircled
by their beauty and sheltered by their shade. The music of
a violin played not far away, rested for only a moment on
the leaves like sweet perfume, before fading into the forest
breeze.
10" x 13" Graphites
Signed Limited Edition of 50, Giclee
Angel's Grove
I
paint outside because only then can I fully appreciate the
hundreds of subtle colors of the wind. This grove of aspen
in the plateaus of the Uncompaghre Mountains of Colorado
was constantly in movement - intoxicated by the breezes and
singing softly like a celestial chorus primeval.
31"
x 27.5"
Oil done with palette knife
31"
x 27.5" Oil done with palette knife
Olympic Cypress
Always
attracted to the mysteries of trees, I found this
one standing alone guarding a weathered shoreline
of Olympic National Park. Its barren limbs testified
to many years of bending to the shape of the wind,
and beckoned me to come close for a while.
18" x 12" Watercolor
Signed Limited Edition of 50, Giclee
Lady
This
is my beautiful, trustworthy mare in Argentina. She
is much smarter than I am about almost everything.
She can take me safely home on a pitch-black night,
always knows which trail is the most direct route,
and can manage an unruly colt like a professional.
Rain
in the desert is an intriguing phenomenon. Seldom
does a storm proceed like those of the mountains
or even the plains. In my experience they are generally
brief, walking gracefully across the landscape, and
occasionally hitch-hiking on the wind, bringing all
living things to grateful attention.
Rain
in the desert is an intriguing phenomenon. Seldom does
a storm proceed like those of the mountains or even
the plains. In my experience they are generally brief,
walking gracefully across the landscape, and occasionally
hitch-hiking on the wind, bringing all living things
to grateful attention.
14.5" X 19" Watercolor
Signed Limited Edition of 50, Giclee
Good Medicine
I
have always been inspired by the simple essentials
indigenous people use or need to create magic and
medicine.
This
is a stylized Graphites drawing of the view from my veranda.
It stretches across the river and up the far hills to a vast
horizon that lets my imagination run free. The mountain pass
over which we ride our horses to get into Estancia Ranquilco
is deep in shadow. Seldom do we have visitors, but once they
do arrive, they never want to leave.
This
is 'Cowboy', one of the best spirited horses I've ever had
the privilege of owning. A gift from a dear friend, he had
an insatiable curiosity - always alert to the slightest movement
or noise - ever hopeful for companionship or adventure.
With
the combination of a full-blooded, registered Arabian sire
and “The Lady” coursing through his veins, Konapilca
Chiripun (Mapueche for “straight arrow at night”)
was born with both beauty and an ‘attitude’.
Only two years old, these images are my hopes and perceptions
for his evolving development.
SALLY ANN RANNEY Piano MARK SCHLENZ Violins and Viola JULIE GOSSWILLER Cello EMMA DAYHUFF Bass
Piano music written by Sally Ann Ranney | String parts and arrangement by Jake Fleming
Recording and Production
by Chris Cunningham, Basecamp Recording LLC, Bozeman, MT.
Photographs by
Charles Engelbert Photography
Printed, pressed and packaged by
Oasis Disc Manufacturing, www.OasicCD.com