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There are places that we just Are.
It’s a camp I’ve been to many times. I feel as much at home there as I do in my house. Several years we shared the camp with an entwined pair of large Eastern Fox snakes warming on the rocks. I know where the pine needles are softest to lay my tent on. I know…
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Mt Fitz Roy Cerro Chaltén
Watercolour, 18.5″ x 30″, ©️2023, Elizabeth Gilbert Monte Fitz Roy, also known as Cerro Chaltén straddles the border of Argentina and Chile in Patagoinia. Its elevation is 3,405 m (11,171 ft). It was first seen by the Europeans in 1783, and first climbed in 1952. The ancient Tehuelches considered the mountain sacred, and named it Chaltén, meaning…
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Torres del Paine
(Blue Towers), watercolour, ©️2021 We started from our camp well before the cold dawn. Ahead in the growing light we saw the puma, a large very muscular feline, the same colour as the grassland. It saw us at about the same moment; its tail twitched slightly. It then ignored us and went back to its…
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Treasures
Years ago I set out to paint closeups in nature, thinking that many small and mundane things were beautiful beyond the usual flowers. I painted stones and driftwood, caterpillars and milkweed pods, starfish and seaweed. Thirty years later, I am confident in those ideas. Nature is beautiful on all scales. I found these shells on…
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First Morning Paddle
There is one view of the water, with your feet in the water looking out to the wind, the waves and the sky. Then there is the other view of the water where you are low in the water in your kayak, absorbing the peace of the dawn as your paddle dips rhythmically, almost silently.…
Elizabeth Gilbert Watercolour Artist 