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This year marks the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. On Saturday, April 10, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., The Woodlands Earth Day Festival returns to The Woodlands High School campus. This year's festival includes more than 70 booths and activities, offering eco-exploration and entertainment for everyone! Organizers of the 2010 event, The Woodlands G.R.E.E.N. and The Woodlands Township have selected a vibrant, watercolor painting of the earth from space by Cynthia Reid, a local artist with a national reputation to commemorate the 20th anniversary of The Woodlands Earth Day Festival. The artist interpreted the recurring Earth Day theme — It’s all connected — by creating a gridded image of earth composed of 196 individual line drawings.
“Viewed closely, each inside square is like a little painting,” said the artist.  Cynthia Reid is both a master gardener and nature enthusiast, thereby allowing her to draw on her own connection with nature for inspiration when selecting animals, flowers, insects, and trees to depict in the design. Taking six months to complete, many of the exquisite drawings required research in order to render accurate representations. Contoured lines, symbols and other images — a hand, eye, stars, raindrops — bring the human element, water, climate and space into the design.
“I worked longer on this piece than on any other painting. It is a celebration of our fragile planet,” she said. The design befittingly represents the community event that focuses on the environment. “The artwork resonates not only with adults but speaks to children as well, just like the event,” said Lynne Aldrich, manager of environmental services at The Woodlands Township.
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