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.
Member of the Findhorn Craft Group
Garden beauties
Spring is present with blossoming pink in park "Jardí del Bisbe" in the capital Palma de Mallorca, end of April 2011
Blessings to the bees !
News and Activities
"I touch the breathtaking light growing into the new day.." Read further in my new posts of this season at the "Inspiration" blog, with images and stories on beauty.
The Artist's Trail
'The Artists' Trail' is a tour through The Park Findhorn to visit local art & craft people in their studios, including Adriana's.
Product news online Shop
You won’t find this on the High Street!
The Love Bench
The successful image of the “Love Bench” is going worldwide! After being only available locally, now in the online shop, as cards and photo print. This image is very popular for weddings, lovers and engagements. Read more on the new shop blog.
Summer Offer:
with the new bookmarks in the online shop. Buy 4 Findhorn themed bookmarks, and get 1 for free. Lots of other new products!
Testimonials:
Feedback on some of my work:
"Deep stuff, thank you for sharing, makes me think of a Rothko painting looking at the window there. Green over green lol, a kind of emergence of the heart perhaps ....."
Fiona Dilston, Yorkshire, UK. On 'Shadows and Light’ Inspiration blog.
"Thank you for the gorse image. With appreciation for the work that you do."
June 2011, Jonathan Caddy, director Duneland
"YOU ARE A GENIUS! I SO appreciate your skills talent and goodness - and will recommend you to all who need you !!"
Dorota Owen, Alchemy Associates, June 2011
“I really liked your Womens Day show in the Universal Hall by the way, ...very sensitively done, it made me grateful for all our 'mothers' who paved the way for us... “
Vera Bohlen, 22 March 2011
Anna Barton, starring in the International Women's Day Show, by Adriana Sjan Bijman
Newsletter Summer Solstice 2011
Happy Solstice! A newsletter filled with new products, a selection of my work, as well as other images and words to honour the Beauty of what is. Solstice at midsummer in the north of Scotland, is celebrated as one of the festival of the Celtic Wheel of the Year.
"Be touched, be healed"
(flowers from my large flower photo-archive: viola, jasmin and rhododendron)
Favourite Photos of the month - this season in movement
April favourite:
Olive trees in the olive groves on the isle of Mallorca. They are sometimes hundred to thousand years old, in which time they came to look like their spirits. Spring was the time to prune and clear between these "Oleas europaea"
May favourite:
The crack in time -where the light comes through- an ancient hunebed (a kind of cromlech, cairn or dolmen) in Drenthe, the Netherlands, made during a visit to my Motherland.
June 2011 favourite:
Blown away by the many yellow flowering Anthemis along the stream at Nethybridge in the Cairngorm National Park in the Scottish Highlands.
Have a look at the Favourite Flower images of 2010
Next below you'll find a taster of some of the work I have been involved in over the last season:
Light Work
Working at the ex-monastery of Son Rullan in Mallorca this April, I discovered the southern light coming and going through the building. Every exit is an entrance to a new space.(think about it!)
Indulge in more beauty on my blog.
Graphic design jobs
"Women2Women: A Personal & Spiritual Inner Journey for Lesbians" is a yearly held workshop at the world-renowned Findhorn Foundation, (spiritual community, eco-village, workshop center) in the north of Scotland. This year at 8-15 October 2011. I support this event with marketing work and graphic design. Click to get more info
P.S. and I highly recommends the workshop!
What, Wedding photos?
"A wedding and a baby"
As an exception I photographed a wedding this May. That's what you do for friends. And then, spiced up with special occasions, I saw premature born Tjez, the newest in the Bijman family, just some days old, in the hospital.
So, more special days to come to photograph?
Building in The Park
If you have not been in the eco-village of Findhorn for a while, you will be surprised how many new buildings are arising from the dune sand. Soilse, Legacy, eco-mobile The Shrine, and Duneland's East Whins on its way...
From photo-series published in the Findhorn Community magazine The Rainbow Bridge.
