This guy is lovely!” ecologist Beth Leger exclaims, falling to her knees. A tiny, energetic woman in her mid-30s, Leger hovers, bee-like, over a teensy grass with blue-green blades. It is, she tells ...

Artist Stephanie Paige was 30 years old when she learned to “let go and not care what anyone thought.” Although she now sells her unique, sculpture-like paintings to collectors all over the world, in ...