Set of 5 hastinote cards

Celebrate the field work that feeds into the Fragile Inheritance Database! Neohelix albolabris is one of the largest native land snails in North America. We plan to visit Ragged Chute, on the Mississippi River in eastern Ontario this spring, to see if it can still be found there. Painted in oils on birch panel for a biologist friend.  

Set of 5 hastinote cards

Celebrate the field work that feeds into the Fragile Inheritance Database! The Chorus Frog, Pseudacris triseriata is especially vulnerable to changes in climate and habitat. For half a century we've surveyed its calling throughout eastern Ontario. 

Set of 5 hastinote cards

Celebrate the field work that feeds into the Fragile Inheritance Database! Biologist Fred Schueler with his dog Marigold cross the South Castor River. Painted onsite by Aleta Karstad on 8 November 2011 during a survey of fresh water mussels in eastern Ontario. 

Engage your friends and family with this simple memory game in the age-old tradition of "Concentration". Find the match to each delicately painted bird, mammal, fish, amphibian, or insect, as you learn their names and what makes each species special.

Giclée fine art print of Aleta Karstad's painting "Cardinal Flower in the Shade" on acid-free "Somerset Velvet" paper, 5.5 x 11.5 in. with 1 in. white border, signed, titled, and individually numbered, suitable for matting and framing.

Aleta painted this portrait of an American Bittern from Limerick Forest, 2.5 km SW McReynolds, Grenville Co., Ont., on 30 Sept 1986.  Handsome and highly detailed this early work of Aleta Karstad, comes as a giclée print on gallery wrap canvas, 30 x 20 inches, framed and ready to hang on your wall.

Fragile Inheritance artist Aleta Karstad, winner of the Robert Bateman Award in 2018, Aleta and with her biologist husband Fred Schueler were joint award winners of the Glen Davis Conservation Leadership Prize in 2020. Her commissioned works are much in demand. She is willing to reward your donation to Fragile Inheritance, by painting especially for you, a subject of your choice - plant, animal, landscape - anything you like.