Fine Art Display
Songbird Community Healing Center is excited to be displaying fine art from local artists. The artwork inspires and helps create the healing atmosphere of the center. As healers, we understand that art is very healing to the soul. We have displayed various forms and media.
If you are interested in showing your artwork, we suggest you take a look at the Songbird physical space on-line to determine if our center is appropriate. You are encouraged to attend our Experience Songbird Saturday event and use it as a reception for your own customers. We are also open to you hosting your own event or showing.
For more detailed information on showing your work at Songbird, please download our Artist Information Sheet and e-mail inquiries with pictures to info@songbirdcenter.org.
Photography by John Hanses
I was seduced by Nature at an early age. In 1968, when I was 5, my family moved to a small ranch in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas. The property was surrounded for miles by forest & orchards. Hiking, climbing, hunting and traveling through the woods to a friend’s was the norm.
In the early 1980’s I began exploring photography in different forms; experimental, landscape, black & white, as well as color photography using a 35 mm SLR. I then focused on B&W with an old Speed Graphic 4×5, press style camera. After converting a bedroom to a dark room, I began processing film and printing B&W myself. In 1985 I shot a bit of color through the 4×5 and found what would be my passion to this day – the color landscape. I took a job at Bay Photo, in Santa Cruz, in 1988, where I could get paid to work in the pro B&W darkroom and had access to equipment to print my images on Cibachrome.
Over the years I have studied with and/or taken work shops with Al Weber, Michael J. Ginney, Bill Atkinson, and Charlie Cramer, all of which are accomplished large format photographers. These studies have increased my appreciation for the craft and knowledge of the color printing process.
I only shoot 4×5, color landscapes, but, I now scan the film with an Imacon X5 scanner and then print the hi-res images on an Epson 9900 inkjet printer. My first full digital darkroom was about 10 years ago and I recently upgraded it with state-of-the-art equipment. I do all printing and framing here, at my studio and shop, in Sonoma County, California.
For more information, see his website, www.johnhansesphotography.com
Photography by Karen Atkins, The Vibration Project
The Vibration Project is a study of how the spirit shines in nature, people, ceremonies, and simple daily living.
Within the last several years, Karen has traveled to 7 different countries and over 50 cities and towns on various educational and spiritual journeys and has documented her travels with uplifting photographs, music and stories.
Through the art of Meditative Photography, Karen exposes the ‘light of the spirit’ to free the magic of the landscape, people or place and share an engaged and wondrous vision of the world.
The Vibration Project book includes these photographs, a 12-song CD of inspirational music, (recorded with Multi-Platinum Award-winning Music producer, Scott Mathews) and stories that express Karen’s passion for life and a uniquely positive perspective on living.
In addition to her careers as an award-winning photographer and songwriter, Karen also leads workshops and presentations worldwide, providing people with the tools to help them radically improve their vitality, health and emotional well-being.
For more information, see her photography website and Vibration Project website.
Past Show:
Oil Paintings by Patrick Mullaney
I was introduced to oil painting through several classes at San Francisco City College around 1990, but got away from art for about 18 years for work and family reasons. I have just recently gotten back into painting through classes at S.R.J.C.
While I am unable to put a label on my style or type of painting, I would describe most of my recent work as abstract yet representational, portraying a mood or an energy through magnifying objects, colors or both in my paintings.
Patrick Mullaney studied graphic design at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo for two years in the late 1980′s.
For more information, see his website.
Therese Miller works as a certified nurse at a local hospital in Santa Rosa. She attended the Columbus College of Art and Design and received a degree with a Fine Art Emphasis from Humboldt State University.
Most of my created artistic endeavors have been in painting and pastels with influences of Georgia O’Keefe and Henri Matisse. A few years back, I was completely taken with Tibetan Buddhist thangkas. The colors and the layout really resonated with me. I started experimenting with collage, to try to recreate for myself the feeling I had when I viewed the thangkas. The result has been what I call “Sacred Art”, a fusion of collage with Japanese print fiber paper, hand painted or drawn images, and sometimes found objects.
In my photography, I am mostly drawn to landscapes that speak to the soul. As a long time meditator, there has been much time spent in nature, just observing what the eye brings to me.