Bold reds, oranges, yellows, greens, blues, purples and even some deep pinks fill the outlined spaces that comprise Cyndie Hammond's geometric imagining of a Coeur d'Alene landscape.

Like a stained-glass window put to paper, Hammond's colored pencil creation is the 2022 winner of the Art on the Green Poster Contest.

“What an incredible honor," said Hammond, of Coeur d'Alene. "I’m humbled."

Hammond spent about 30 hours sketching and dreaming up the vibrant illustration.

"It was more of an intuitive feeling as I put together the Palouse prairies representation, the colors came up," she said. "It was organic in its development, more than I anticipated it would be. I thought it would be deliberate, with the sunflowers and the sun, and of course, we've got the water and the trees and the Art on the Green location itself. We have mountains. We have a little bit of everything."

Hammond said she drew inspiration for the piece from the abstract paintings of Sally Trace.

“I thought, ‘There are some things I admire that she does, but I’m going to make this my own,’” she said.

Hammond is not a professional artist, although she is handy with fiber arts and has a few items for sale at Mix It Up in downtown Coeur d'Alene.

“The last time I won an art contest I was 10," she said with a smile. "I submitted a crayon drawing to the Green Bay Press Gazette and won $10."

Announced in January, the contest invited community members to submit original artwork to be used as the 2022 poster and festival design. Hammond's winning piece also earned a $300 prize.

"We just love it," said Anne Solomon, treasurer for the Citizens' Council for the Arts, which organizes Art on the Green each year.

"The judges felt like it was vibrant, that it was unique,” she said. “We thought it would be eye-catching as a poster. We put them in windows all over town and all over the county to announce the festival."

The piece was selected out of 24 entries voted on by Art on the Green board members and volunteers with the Citizens' Council for the Arts. Once they narrowed it to a few, the finalists were placed on artonthegreencda.com for a public vote.

Hammond, to whom Coeur d'Alene Mayor Jim Hammond is married, said she has always been a supporter of the arts.

"I’ve written grants for artists in residence in education classes, but I'm not a practicing artist," she said. "This is the first time in my life that I can call myself an artist."

Solomon said the poster just screams "joy."

"We’ve come from very convoluted, cumbersome years," Hammond said. "Let’s just see a little joy. That’s what I want, all the work to do, is to emanate a little joy."

The poster will be available for purchase at the festival and online. Visit artonthegreencda.com to see past festival posters.

The 54th annual Art on the Green will be on the North Idaho College campus Aug. 5, 6 and 7.