A childhood glimpse of a painted wall. A fifth-grade field trip that changed everything. Decades later, a retired teacher with a paintbrush and no intention of stopping.

Art is Me gathers 58 original watercolors, graphite drawings, and pen-and-ink works from an artist whose path to the canvas was anything but direct. What began with a single watercolor class has grown into a lifelong practice, and this collection is its first public home.

Part memoir, part gallery, this book is a portable museum - one that fits in your hands and asks nothing but a little curiosity in return.