Holly B. Heckler is an oil painter living and working in Western NY who creates unnatural but botanical landscape paintings inspired by our rapidly changing ecosystems. Her paintings are conglomerates of observation, memory, collected momentos, and imagination. These invented scenarios evoke a wide array of emotions ranging from absolute hopefulness and possibility, to a sense of extinction and desolation. The narratives are usually that of an artifact or plant, displaced by human intervention. There is a sense of stillness and calm despite the underlying transience of the subject(s.) One wants to look.