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photographs christmas photos holiday photos candle photos christmas card photos weihnachten photos december 24 photos wreath photos advent photos advent wreath photos candles photos poinsettia photos cactus photos cacti photos cactus wreath photos poinsettias photos

I cut and pasted photos of my poinsettias, cacti and advent candles in Photoshop creating a background of mottled green. And then pasted in the lettering. I was inspired by the German tradition of lighting candles for the advent season.

Mary Helmreich was born in 1945 near Boston, Massachusetts. Her talent was recognized early, when at age nine she won a prize for portraiture, competing against high school students. At twelve she attended a summer art program at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. In the eleventh grade she studied under Sidney Hurwitz at the De Cordova Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts, and at the Cummington School of the Arts in the Berkshires. At Bard College New York from 1963-1964 she majored in Sculpture taught by Harvey Fite and Fine Art by Anton Refregier. She continued her studies at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston from 1964-1965 under the tutelage of Robert Grady and Andreas Feininger. Toward the end of 1965 she traveled to London and...