Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

Micki Colbeck

For her latest collection of paintings, Stafford artist Micki Colbeck pondered the power of water in all its manifestations on the planet, and literally captures the liquid's reflective quality. Her artist statement for "Underwater," an exhibit at the Vermont Supreme Court in Montpelier, explains: "I have been thinking about water — about glaciers, about floods and hurricanes, about storm surges and sea walls, and its consequences, displaced populations and destroyed farmlands. I have been looking at water and down into water, wading on rocks and studying reflections." Pictured: "Underwater Trees."