Vision 2020 Blog

Here’s a glimpse of Eye of “Heat” Storm by Brenda Wood of Brisbane, Australia. She remarks: Hottest October on record! Bushfire warning!  Fast forward a month and we have the worst bushfires in history. Having foresight, or vision of what was to come would we have changed anything? Will we ever have the vision to […]

Here’s a glimpse of In the Eye of the Beholders by Sue Reid of Kyabram, Victoria, Australia.  The eucalyptus leaf weeps for the trees destroyed during another season of bush fires, but the Australian bush is resilient and after each fire the trees and undergrowth gradually recover. Just a Glimpse is a series of blog […]

Shannon Conley of is a basic science vision researcher from Moore, Oklahoma USA.  The goal of her lab is to understand the cellular mechanisms that underlie various vision disorders, in particular age-related macular degeneration and inherited retinal dystrophies. Age-related macular degeneration begins with death of the retinal pigment epithelium and choriocapillaris, without which the retina […]

Here’s a glimpse of The Floater by Victoria Mansfield of Alexandra Hills, Queensland, Australia. This piece is a thread painted impression of a photo of Victoria’s retina  which shows the very large floater she has developed in her eye. The floater looks like a piece of thread. How fitting for a textile artist! Follow Victoria […]

While eye imagery dominates in Vision 2020, Monica Johnstone of Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA took a different look at the theme. In Vision of St Joan Monica hoped to capture the legend of Joan of Arc’s vision of her own wondrous and horrific short life. Here’s a glimpse. See more of Monica’s artwork on her […]