I love the place where I live; as familiar as the back of my hand, yet never the same two days in a row. In my work I try to capture the beauty I see in the sun shining through the trees, in the mist that rises out of the valleys after a rain, in the clouds that pile in the west, in the simple, everyday blessings, in faces and events, subtle and breath-taking. Hannah C. Heyer is a self-taught artist living and working in rural Southeastern Minnesota. Working in oil and watercolour, she focuses on portraiture and landscapes, with emphasis on detail, place, and season. Her illustrations portray whimsy and humor with ink and watercolour. She was introduced to plein air painting in 2009 and fell in love with the challenge of trying to capture a place and time with paint and brush.