Photography, graphic design & stationery
Photographs in commission or delivered from the large photo archive of 3 decades black-and- white
and colour photography of Adriana Sjan Bijman, specialised in nature, flowers and landscapes,
ecology, community life at the Findhorn Foundation Community, people as well as organic farming and
gardening.
Adriana Sjan Bijman’s beautiful photographs have been used on record/CD/DVD covers, posters, leaflets
and magazines in Europe over many years. Have a look at her portfolio.
Participant and co-organiser of the Findhorn Craft Group and the Findhorn Women Art Circle.
Feedback:
Feedback on photos made by Adriana Sjan Bijman: 'GREAT pictures! Thank you very much'
Forres Gazette newspaper
News and Events
Wild plants: Comfrey- a great medicine-herb for everyone (make a herbal infusion-tea and sip it with honey if you have a cold!) and used as a liquid menure for the garden. © findhorn images
The online shop is now open!
We celebrate with a Special Price Offer for the book 'Gifts from the Findhorn Gardens'.
We have been building the online shop with an ever growing variety of products. Greeting cards, the Birthday Calendar, Notebooks, gift boxes with greeting cards, all with photo-images around nature, wild flowers and herbs, landscape, community life, the Buddha. Next to this there are several Findhorn Garden books, including 'Gifts from the Findhorn Gardens' which authors Margot Henderson and Adriana Sjan Bijman sell directly to you, with great discount: instead of the normal price of £ 9.95 you can get it for £ 5.99. now.Just go to the online shop and have a look!
New card series
The gorgious Nigella flower, or 'Love-in-a-Mist', as a pastel in pastel colours on recycled card. Speicial size 18 x 8 cm with envelope. Also available with several other flowers.
News & Events Autumn 2008
Inspired by WILD FOOD and WILD PLANTS
In the harvest month of September the Findhorn Foundation Community hosted some workshops of American herbalist Susan Weed and later on Frank Cook, the herbalist from Schumacher College. Frank took us on some fascinating ‘weed walks’ as well as extolling the virtues of fermentation, and offering insights into the abundance of Nature. As participant Dan Puplett (co-worker of Trees for Life) said afterwards: “Frank is a very inspiring, authentic teacher with a deep connection to Nature. He emphasized how important it is for everyone to have a deeper understanding of wild foods, medicines etc, empowering us at a time when we must inevitably move towards a more local and self-reliant scale.“ A Wild-Life-Network group was set up in Findhorn to exchange skills and knowledge.......... Beach coomber Adriana started her seaweed-research!
The updated version of the book
'The FINDHORN GARDEN STORY"
is out, now in English and in French 'Les Jardins de Findhorn' (and we hope other languages will follow soon). The book tells the story of the garden from teh perspective of the founders of the Findhorn Foundation Community in Findhorn in the north of Scotland, and is enriched with more than 120 colour photographs of Findhorn photographer Adriana Sjan Bijman. Read, see more or buy directly from the Findhorn Press.Artists-co-production:
'The Observer Effect'
This exhibition and conference exploring the role of the captured image took place in the Moray Art Centre in Findhorn at the end of
August. For the first time local dancer Ruby Worth and photographer Adriana Sjan Bijman worked together here in creating a dance-photo performance.
Poetry & the Scottish weather
This is the proof. The summer of 2008 has been fabulous at the Findhorn coast. Others might think differently about it, but we gardeners say: "There is no such thing as bad weather, there is only bad clothing." But not on that particular day in Lossiemouth.
The poem is about something else though. It is part of a series texts and images with the theme of the coast. (©Adriana Sjan Bijman)
Graphic design jobs
On an ongoing basis I design posters, audio and DVD covers as well as business cards.
This card for London based minister and Interfaith seminary leader Nicola Coombe is this month's example.
Feedback
Feedback on graphic design work:
'Thank you Adriana- always for your professionalism and efficiency"
Deborah Jay-Lewin, 5Rythms teacher