Secor understands trees as both a comforting peripheral constant, and also as singular and living, if not sentient beings that also endure the travails of existence, including sickness. Accordingly, she renders each of her sylvan subjects in a manner similar to her previous portrait works, with patient accumulations of abbreviated, sinewy, and colorful line, here using gouache, ink, white out, and pencil. The resulting images are at once meditative artistic studies and impressionistic landscapes—empathetic documents of time passing. Beth Secor Pecan Tree, Winter 2013, 2013 ink, gouache, and pencil on paper 16 x 20 1/4 in (40.6 x 51.4 cm) BS 232 $3,750