Gated Community Canvas Print

The civilized cultivated garden on the right gives way to the wild and uncultivated garden encroaching up the stairs. The monkeys are not hindered by the gates and really neither are the people as they are usually unlocked, open and barely on their hinges. Will the stately old house within this garden wall be pulled into the state of decay outside or will it be brought back into repair and become beautiful once again? Or is the garden outside the wall more beautiful and lush in its wild state than the flower beds in their cement wall and gravel parking space?

Sandra R. Hansen travels and paints around the world. During the last few years Sandra has painted numerous landscapes, from the US to Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Thailand, Vietnam, and many others. Her specialty has been India where she made numerous trips painting, teaching, and exhibiting her art. This year Sandra started a non profit organization, Artists Cultural Exchange, to help artists from around the world meet each other, paint and exhibit together. Sandra's career has taken many twists and turns before arriving in the world of painting however. Sandra first became a woodworker, building harps at Lyon and Healy in Chicago. After attending Hope College and earning a degree in Women's Studies. For eighteen years she...