11 – Images

Beet

By Bryan Clifton

As we enter Spring and get ready for backyard gardening season, I was reminded of this photo I took of my farmer friend Ricky B, working the family farm. There’s nothing like a fresh & gritty backyard beet!

High contrast image - close up of a man's weather hands cutting a beet with a small knife. He is wearing a dirty t-shirt and jeans.

Bryan Clifton is the senior photographer at UAMS. His photo and video work has supported a range of local and international entities including Heifer International, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Root Capital, Counterpart International, USDA, USAID, Sustainable Harvest Coffee Importers, Arkansas Children’s Hospital, UAMS (University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences), University of Arkansas Extension, The Clinton Foundation, Equator Coffee, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (Keurig Green Mountain), Peet’s Coffee, Allied Cycle Works, Arkansas Sustainable Livestock Cooperative, Grass Roots Cooperative/CSA, AARP, ACDI/VOCA, Men’s Journal , Marketplace.org (NPR) and others.

Pen and Ink Drawings

By Elizabeth Hartzell

Each original drawing features an organ paired with a plant and/or herb that some consider beneficial.

Pen and ink drawing of a anatomically-correct heart with a flowered plant growing out of the top — Heart and Hawthorn Berry

pen and ink drawing of a cross section of lungs with a flowered plant growing out of the top — Lungs and Mullein

Elizabeth Hartzell is a painter, illustrator, and dancer based in Austin, Texas. She is the recipient of the Emerging Arts Leader’s professional development grant and TBX Honorary Scholarship Awardee. Hailing from Little Rock, Arkansas, Elizabeth studied both studio art and dance at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Her style of painting originated in college when studying the impressionist Mary Cassatte. Continuing to push further into abstraction, she found her figures floating in colorful worlds that stir the imagination. During her last years of college, she focused primarily on dancing but when her husband and father were not able to work due to illness, she started a fundraiser to help her family get by. In exchange for donations, she offered drawings and paintings. Painting and drawing became a part of her everyday routine, as well as, a type of therapy to cope with her situation. Elizabeth’s style transformed by drawing inspiration from her commissions, long walks in nature, dance, and meditation. She’s greatly inspired by the colors of sunsets, wildflowers, and moonlight.

Sunrise

By Stacey Thompson

Downtown Little Rock skyline silhouetted by the rising sun

Both pictures were taken from the ninth floor of the Jack Stephens Spine Institute on the UAMS campus.

Stacey Thompson is the GME Program Coordinator for Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine and the Body MRI Fellowship Coordinator in the UAMS Department of Radiology.

Watercolors

By Michael Moreth

Here are some watercolor paintings I made. I hope you like them.

abstract work made of orange and yellow squares and lines of paint — Xenophile

Abstract art made of yellow, green, blue, and red — Yodel

abstract art made of multiple colors — Zippiness

Michael Moreth is a recovering Chicagoan living in the rural, micropolitan City of Sterling, the Paris of Northwest Illinois USA.