Canadian painter Doris McCarthy died on November 25 at age 100. Ms McCarthy had a 40 year career as a teacher before dedicating herself full-time to painting the Canadian landscape. She was also the author of three memoirs. She is best known for her paintings of the Canadian Arctic.

“When I retired from teaching, I thought that the next major event of my life would be dying,” she said in an interview with the Huffington Post’s Julia Moulden. “There was no imagining that the best years were still ahead of me.”