What does it mean I AM PAINTING FOR TREES? I am donating 10% of the sales of my paintings to the planting of trees via this fundraiser.

What you can do? Either donate to this fundraiser directly or support me by purchasing my art.

Shocked by the fires in Australia at the end of 2019, I felt an urgent need to do something about climate change. I have lived in Australia for 5 years and I love its wildness and the abundance of nature there. We lived in Sydney, and near Byron Bay and Coffs Harbour, and the tropical forests around there are just so beautiful.

I love trees and I have been part of Clare Dubois TreeSisters movement for years. She started very small and humbly with a regular online meditation circle, deepening our relationship with mother nature. And it was through her that I found a lot of information on trees and their high effectiveness and importance to stop climate change. You can read more about this also in this article on CNN.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/17/world/trillion-trees-climate-change-intl-scn/index.html which stated: "The most effective way to tackle climate change? Plant 1 trillion trees."

This seems daunting until seen from a larger perspective. There are now around 7.53 billion people on earth and to plant 1.2 Trillion trees each would have to plant 160 trees. That doesn’t seem such a huge number anymore.

To get the most impact planting them it seems highly impractical for me to start this in my backyard and plant them all myself. I can hardly keep my garden alive without it being eaten by gophers and deer. So I am leaving that to the professionals. What I CAN do is paint - and thru painting - raise money to plant trees.

In 2020 my goal was to raise $2020, and we were able to raise $2,325 and plant 2325 trees with OneTreePlanted. This year I want to raise even more with TreeSisters.

Will You help me?

We need more trees to stop the climate crisis!

TreeSisters are a reforestation and social change charity, ethically expanding green cover of our world.

They have already planted over 26 million trees across 12 locations in the tropics.

With a focus on conservation and education, they work with local and original people, take a bio cultural approach, supporting rights based conservation and gender equality.

Please join me in connecting with nature and supporting TreeSisters to protect and restore our environment so that our planet can survive and thrive.