42 Pieces of Inspired Estuary Art on Exhibition This Summer

Please join me for this special event. I’m showing 42 pieces of my colorful watercolors and pastel illustrations, including a selection of my new images from my multiple visits to the Galapagos Islands. Many of my new pieces are posted in the ART section of this site. Rookery Bay is an extraordinarily beautiful nature center & art gallery in the middle of an estuary preserve. As many of you know, I’m passionate about estuary preservation and cannot imagine a more perfect place to have my art make its statement.

There will be a special reception for all my friends Wednesday, June 6 (5:30-7:30pm). The art is for sale, and a variety of mounted giclee prints and other branded merchandise will be offered as well. The Rookery Bay Estuarine Preserve is located at 300 Tower Rd., Naples 34113 and it is open M-F 9am-4pm.

My artwork tells your stories.

We all know and love the stories, for they are buried deep within our DNA. They are about the beauty, wonder and inspiration that is everywhere in the world around us. They tell how we have overcome fear and learned how to navigate in this life.

Whether your approach is as a scientist or a dreamer, my work celebrates the awesome nature of creation. It is designed to awaken readers and collectors to the world of positive possibilities and delightful imaginings. All you have to do is choose.

The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe. — Albert Einstein

Illustrations and Artwork shown on this website may not be copied, downloaded, shared, re-cast in electronic format or otherwise reproduced without the express written consent of Sigrid Tidmore.

Heavens Above, Sea Below

…And when he was up, he was up,
And when he was down, he was down,
And when he was only half way up he was neither up nor down.
         — “The Grand Old Duke of York,” Children’s Nursery Rhyme

One evening, sitting on the dock of Tampa Bay, I watched a perfect sunset reflected in the water. Below the surface I noticed a family of fish. The actions above and below the water had me musing about how we perceive the surface of the water to divide our realities.

Then before I knew it, a dolphin popped up – throwing all the realities I had so carefully considered into disarray.

Consider how often we use duality in other areas of our lives to carefully categorize relationships of one thing to another.  On first glance this art may appear to be a simple children’s book illustration, until you try to define what is above and what is below and what is “neither up nor down.”

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Sigrid’s Galapagos Sketchbook

I just returned from spending almost a month in Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands maintaining an illustrative journal of what I saw. You can read about my adventures and see preview drawings on my website.

I’m very excited with this new direction in ecological art and I hope to use my art collection and my art-inspired products to draw attention and raise funds to support Galapagos preservation efforts.

Please give me your feedback or suggest any resources you know that might help me make this a reality.

Auntie Wears Pink When She Flies

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You think it takes a village to raise a child? Auntie can do it all by herself.  With no kids of her own, she loves every kid she see…latch-key kids, single-parent kids, abused kids, lonely kids…they end up at her home and in her arms as if the force of gravity pulled them there.

No kid is too big for her hand, or too small to be hugged. No kid is too noisy to be listened to, and no kid is too angry to be cuddled to her bosom.  She has fresh cookies warm from the oven, cold milk in a frosty glass, a comfy lap and safe place for non-judgmental love. She’ll hold you and sing you songs, gospel hymns and nursery rhymes and folk tunes — and pretty soon, you’ll be singing them too.

But all the time she’s giving you her love, she’s flying. She evolves into a Roseate Spoonbill, pink like a Florida sunrise, enfolding her children in her feathers, and enjoying every moment.  Don’t ever feel sorry for her. She’s having a ball. You want to see “wind beneath the wings?” Send her a needy kid, and watch Auntie fly.