Nature was Eva Slater's inspiration for her art

Eva Slater drew her inspiration from nature. She and her husband John Slater, an inventor, would travel throughout the southwest and it was out in the wild, vast expanses that she would get her ideas. These photos were taken by John Slater on their trips and they show the correlation between what she saw and the subject matter of her work. The trunks of the trees in the forest in this photo were the basis of her black and white "Forest" series and the clouds with the areas of rain underneath them in the deserts inspired her "Desert Rain" pieces.