"The artist has a special relationship to beauty. In a very true sense it can be said that beauty is the vocation bestowed on him by the Creator in the gift of 'artistic talent'. And, certainly, this too is a talent which ought to be made to bear fruit, in keeping with the sense of the Gospel parable of the talents (cf. Mt 25:14-30)." (John Paul II to Artists, 1999)

Artist Jennifer Ward lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, with her husband and four children. She maintains an art studio in her home and focuses on preparing artistic representations of Catholic mysteries. In the Vocation Tree illustration, the child reaching into the water is the youngest child of the artist and her husband, and the family to the right of the tree are friends of the artist.