Mary Hurst draws inspiration for her photographs and paintings from the beauty of nature and has been capturing its loveliness and fragility since she acquired her first camera at the age of sixteen in preparation for her first trip to México as a high school student. That trip turned out to be the deciding factor in her pursuit of a teaching vocation and would later lead to other international trips as a Spanish teacher. As a language lover, Mary has written poetry since early childhood, and now combines her botanical poems with photographs, drawings, and acrylic paintings with a spiritual...more