As a wildlife conservation artist, Vickie McMillan-Hayes is closely attuned to the cycles in life, the metamorphoses and the evolutions, the ebb and flow of the seasons. To speak of her current life metaphorically, Vickie is perhaps in the late summer or early fall, in a period when she is extremely active, tending to the explosive growth all around her and reaping the rewards of early plantings. Yet her life has balance, as she shifts back and forth between her quiet time alone in the studio creating art and her interactions with others through her collaborative events and outreach programs. It is a full and rewarding season in her life, dedicated, as she likes to say, to “changing lives one painting at a time.” |