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Botanical Impressions features artists Jean Burdick, Linda Dubin Garfield, & Gina Michaels. In this exhibition, we see a representation of various flora from certain regions around the world. Jean and Gina’s work centers around printmaking, duplicating the intricate details and patterns seen in local plants. Linda utilizes photography to capture a wider focus on the beautiful landscapes across each continent.

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Jean Burdick

‍She/Her 

Bio

Jean Burdick is a painter and printmaker and lives and maintains a studio in Bucks County, PA.  Her process involves successive layers of patterns, textures, shapes and colors, beginning with silkscreen printing and enhanced by drawing, painting, printing and experimental mark-making. Elements of the natural world are magnified, overlapped and obscured, reflecting the continual growth and change, which is the touchstone of the natural world.

Burdick received her MFA degree from The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, and her BFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, and has worked as a textile designer and an arts educator. She is the recipient of awards and honors including a Visual Artist Residency to the Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada; GR Dodge Foundation Visual Artist/Educator Fellowship Grant and an NEA Grant as an Artist in Residence for the James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA .

Jean has exhibited nationally and is included in numerous corporate, public and private collections. Her work is represented in the collections of Allergan Corporation, Bridgewater, NJ; AtlantiCare/Fox Chase Cancer Care Institute, Cape May, NJ; AtlantiCare Mainland Campus, Galloway, NJ; Capital Health Medical Center, Hopewell, NJ; Johnson and Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ; Penn Medicine, Plainsboro, NJ; Penn Medicine, Cherry Hill, NJ; Penn Medicine Radnor, PA; Mercer Co. Cultural/ Historical Society, NJ; Mercy Health System, Norristown, PA; Philadelphia Energy Solutions, Philadelphia, PA; Penn State Hampden Medical Center, Hampden, PA; Penn State Lancaster Medical Center, Lancaster, PA; Summit Medical Group MD Anderson Cancer Center, Florham Park, NJ; and Yeshiva University, New York City, NY.

Statement

“Through observational practice, I reinterpret the natural environment, referencing my woodland photographs in which I record light, shadow and memory. I explore, photograph and draw landscapes and botanica that reflect the fragility, tenacity and strength of the natural world that I observe in the woodlands near my Eastern Pennsylvania home and in my wider world travels. The ongoing threat of our changing climate on the survival of our natural lands underscores the importance of recording these experiences visually.

I immerse myself in nature to capture hidden and overlooked vistas from trail hikes, challenging myself to re-examine what I’ve observed so many times. I value these natural lands, and the space to slow down, collect my thoughts and renew feelings of wonder and hope. My work transforms memories into something tangible, focusing on segments of vistas that reflect what I experienced, recreating the essence of that moment.

With nature as a catalyst, I begin by printing photo silkscreens, building each successive layer of pattern, texture and color. I enhance the image through drawing, painting, printing and experimental mark-making. Reimagining what I have observed, I merge the images from several perspectives to give a closer interpretation of my experiences.

Ultimately, these prints suggest narratives of unfolding life cycles: birth, growth, decomposition and regeneration. My renewed vistas are composites, illuminating a memoir of landscapes in transition.”

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Linda Dubin Garfield

She/ Her

‍Bio

Linda Dubin Garfield, an award-winning printmaker and mixed media artist, creates visual memoirs exploring the mystery of memory and the magic of place, using hand-pulled printmaking techniques, photography, collage and digital imaging. Her abstract and dynamic works use multiple layers of ink that waver between background and foreground creating a fusion of surface design and abstract expressionism She also creates installations that include public participatory art, especially when she is exploring themes relating to women in today’s culture. In 2005 she founded ARTsisters, a group of professional artists who empower each other and their community through art. In 2007 she started smART business consulting, helping emerging artists reach their goals and their audience, providing consulting and coaching on the business side of art through individual, small groups, and workshop experiences as well as providing opportunities to exhibit work. Today she serves on several non-profit boards, including being President of Da Vinci Art Alliance, and appreciates her good fortune to be able to make art every chance she gets.

Statement

“Across two decades of travel to landscapes on every continent, I have watched the world reveal itself in moments of quiet grandeur—glaciers breathing in the Arctic light, deserts singing with heat, ancient forests sheltering the last of their wildness. My camera has been my companion on these journeys, a way to honor the beauty that persists in every corner of the planet. Each photograph is an act of gratitude: a pause, a breath, a reminder of what remains miraculous.

As I walk these environments, I’m aware that the scenes unfolding in front of me are both timeless and fragile. Climate change shadows every horizon now—shorelines recede, ice thins, storms intensify. My work is not meant to document loss but to celebrate what is still here, urging viewers to see the world not as a distant concept but as a living, breathing presence that needs our care. By witnessing beauty, we begin to understand what is at stake.

This series of 12 is an invitation: to look closely, to feel deeply, and to recognize our own role in the story of the Earth. I hope these images spark conversations about stewardship and inspire small, meaningful actions that ripple outward. If my photographs can help even one viewer reconnect with the natural world—and perhaps protect it—then they have done their work.”

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Gina Michaels 

She/Her

Bio

Gina Michaels is a sculptor and printmaker. Her bronze sculpture and monotypes explore plant energy and structure, creating unique, improvisational artwork in media traditionally used to create editions. Gina’s work has been shown in numerous solo, group and public art exhibitions in galleries, museums and public spaces nationwide. She is a graduate of Oberlin College, studied intensively at the New York Studio School, and received her MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. Gina is the owner and manager of Legacy Atelier, a foundry, metal fabrication and sculpture studio serving the conservation/preservation community.

Statement

“I create monotypes in collaboration with the botanical world. The intricate structure and meditative energy of plants form the underlying matrix of the work. Leaves and stems collected from my garden are placed directly on the blank inked surface of a plate, creating stencils. I then remove the plants and run the plate again, printing the ghost image left by the leaves on the plate. Negative and positive shapes alternate, building layer upon layer, as the plant material embosses the paper. The “Reflection” series in particular explores this dialog of color in negative and positive forms, creating relationships of balanced contrast. The “Tara” series is a more free-form meditation on the same principles.”