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
Garden guests
Guests at Findhorn's gardens: horses, bringing their beautiful presence, and their menure for compost!
New webpage for Findhorn Craft Group
For the Findhorn Craft Group I made a new webpage on the findhorn.com website. Have a look to see our events and some of our local artists.
Another creative soul, pianist and composer Susanne Olbrich, gave a commission to make her website, which will soon be expanded with an online shop. Coming soon, in time for the launch of her new CD "Continuations".
Preparing for Copenhagen's Climate Change Talks!
News and Events
"The Artists' Trail"
Ongoingly open this summer in The Park in Findhorn. Visit the Findhorn craft- and art studios, including the small but vibrant studio of Adriana Sjan Bijman PhotoArt.
CRAFT & ART FAIRS
As part of the Findhorn Craft Group our products were to be found on several Craft & Art Fairs during this season.
LGBT in Findhorn:
The new programme listing is out!
'Women2Women -A Personal and Spiritual inner Journey' is just one of the weeklong workshops that take place at the Findhorn Foundation. I made the 2009/10 new poster, here to download as pdf and to forward, if you wish. More information.
Poster design by Adriana Bijman.
Just packed up:
Summer Art Exhibition
in The Blue Angel Cafe, with The Artists' Trail, in Findhorn, during the end of July.
Dance your life slowly
The Festival of Sacred Dance, Song and Music at Findhorn inspired me to change the sign at the road! I am so often too much in a hurry, how about you folks? Let's dance our life slowly! Life is a gift, every day again, that's why we call it the preesent.
Newsletter Autumn 2009
with news from Summer Solstice into Autumn Equinox into the Autumn of 2009
The monthly favourite photographs in Autumn 2009
July 2009 favourite:
Painter's colours at MacDuff Shipyard, during Boatfestival
August favourite
Baby Blessing Ceremony at Findhorn
September favourite
Fuzzy with Fungi
Autumn Equinox
As we have come to the end of a season of harvest and of abundant gifts of nature,the Sun is entering Libra. It is called Autumn Equinox in the northern hemisphere, and around 22 September day and night are equal worldwide. This is a time of blessing, a time of balance in giving and receiving, in light and dark, in summer and winter and in life and death. How do we find balance in our personal lives? How do we balance the planet? The Earth has blessed us with full fertile fields and orchards. What do we give in return? How do we keep the soil, the air and water clean and healthy? How much care, awareness and positive action can we dedicate to the seas, rivers and lakes? After the fire of a summer from an abundant giving sun, to what cause do we commit our passion? And with the clean Scottish air moving through me as a creative life force, I wonder what I myself want to co-create and bring with Beauty into life, this coming season? While the days will be getting shorter, the geese and swallows overhead prepare to leave. As the birds, so I am preparing for a new journey.
The new Autumn Collection:
Nature captured in colourful images for box-sets with greeting cards, XL cards and precious little handmade ones. Above from left to right: greeting card Randolph's Leap woods, box-set Nature Sanctuary Findhorn, small box sets with greeting cards Chrysanthemum and Amaryllis.
See more at the Findhorn Images online shop
The Wheel of the Year turns....
It is said that the Summer Solstice was the Give-Away time of the Sun. We've had so much of it. And slowly the nights get longer. Slowly time changes until it wil be equal everywhere on the planet with Autumn Equinox.
Lamas or Lughnasad
Lamas is the Celtic Festival at the beginning of August that marks the ending of the summer. This is the time to harvest the first fruits, the corn from the fields and the fruits of our labour. In all traditions, Celtic, Hopi, eastern and pre-Hellenic rituals and myths connected the cycles of the year with the sowing, growing and harvests at this time of the year. In Ireland the earth and sovereign Goddess Eire was served. Next to the Celtic Sun God Lugh this is the festival of the water Goddess Sulis (later romanised as Sulis-Minerva). Imagine the processions from the hills to honour the earth for her gifts. In Saxon areas Lammas was celebrated. In the classical world it was understood that the Grain Goddess Demeter, the all-giving Earth, stops her blooming now and summer is changing into fall. Grapes into wine, grain into bread. The cycle of grain has always been associated with the cycle of birth, death and rebirth. The grain dies so that the people might live. In the Christian tradition corn bread was offered on the altar on the 1st of August and later called Loafmass. Lamas is about change, about transformation. The grains are almost ripe, but not harvested yet.
What harvests do we wait for in our own life? And what can we do to achieve them?
Artists' Trail
Findhorn Images is part of "The Artists' Trail in The Park" . All artists on this trail, including a pottery and the weaving studio, invite to visit their studios and to experience the ambience of the Park and Findhorn.
Photo-portraits
Co-founder of the Findhorn Foundation Community Dorothy Maclean returns to Findhorn after 36 years in North America. So of course I've put her portrait on the front cover of our community magazine "The Rainbow Bridge".
New Products
New products like this gift box-set with a variety of mushroom cards. Also new: The gift box-set "The Organic Garden", introduced at the Transition Town Forres Fairs in August this year. Also new: "Nature Sanctuary" in The Park, autumn flowers "Chrysanthemum", a series about the blossoming red bud of the Amaryllis flower (see on top of this page).
Fungi Fuzz
It has been a great season for all wild fungi and I made a photo-project about them. See also photo of the month, Autumn Equinox, they are everywhere at the moment.