Rosamund Stone Zander was a celebrated landscape painter, passionate environmentalist, loving mother, and best-selling author....
Obituary: Rosamund Roz Stone Zander
Rosamund Roz Stone Zander
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.
Rosamund Roz Stone Zander, a celebrated landscape painter, passionate environmentalist, loving mother, and best-selling author who inspired readers to shift their thinking and live a life of meaning and possibility, died on Sept.
5 on the Maine island of Vinalhaven.
Ms. Zander died suddenly while swimming with her husband, Hansjorg Wyss.
Alternating between winters in Cambridge, Mass. and summers in Maine, Ms. Zander lived a life deeply connected to the natural world and the innate beauty and potential of all living things.
Zander's own life of possibility began in Hartford, Conn.
From a young age, Ms. Zander was pulled to experience nature through painting. She spent many hours bushwhacking through woods and climbing rocks to find the scene that spoke to her. She wrote her first book, The Art of Possibility, while living and working on a tent platform without power on Vinalhaven.
The book draws on insights and experiences fro