Events

Kenna Norris is an artist based in Tiburon, California. Coastal and
mountain landscapes provide the perfect inspiration for her
palette knife paintings. Central to her expressive work are bold
strokes of vibrant oils layered on natural linen and other materials.

This curated collection for Ground includes many local landscapes,
seascapes, floral studies and embroidered artwork.

A creative activist, my focus lies in the transformational value of the creative process and the ongoing interaction between inner and outer experience. Life is my practice. I am a grandmother, artist, writer and minimalist. Life is a process of perception in motion, a process of

Rebirth suggests a state of meditation, bypassing the intellect to reveal subtle patterns of thought and a transparent record of an emerging self. Life becomes more spacious when considering the fluid nature of spirit fragments. Awakening to other dimensions, a deeper awareness of wind, sky and cosmos activates realms of intuitive, telepathic experience required to execute the process.

Books are an extension of my artwork, acting as visual and verbal sketchbooks. Visual diaries continually unfold, linking psychic, electronic and physical space. Waking up in our multidimensional world, I collect data from many sources including nature, dreams, ancient wisdom and the crisis of our times. Seeking liberation, freedom from the constraints I have imposed on my unsuspecting self, I attempt to use the capacities that we all have been given to grasp what is really happening at the edge of awareness. I reach out to sparks from the source.

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• Art Opening with Barbara Seidel and garden party with live handpan music by Gary Muszynski (4:30 - 6:00 PM)

• Cook Fresh from the Garden with personal chef & farm owner, Susan Gouveia (1:00 - 2:30 PM)

• Gardening with Kids with Michelle Bryant, Garden Coordinator at MLK Academy (11:00 AM - 12:30 PM)
• Cooking with Kids in the Garden with personal chef & farm owner, Susan Gouveia (1:00 - 2:30 PM)
• Live acoustic guitar with Bill Hansell

• Garden Q&A & tour with Landscape Designer & Ground co-founder, Beth LaDove (12:00 - 4:00 PM)
• Benefits of Planting CA Natives with Dana Swisher of Refugia (1:00 - 2:00)
• Environmental Stewards Internship Program with Laura McDonnell of Next Steps Liaison Project (3:00 - 4:00)

Annie Bilder is a self taught artist, who discovered her artistic talent when she moved to Tiburon in her mid forties. Here she felt compelled to try to capture the beauty that surrounded her, almost as an act of gratitude for the privilege of living here.

She found working with a diverse array of materials to be a deeply satisfying, very personal form of meditation, with color, always color, driving her.  Early on she decided not to take lessons of any sort. Creating art was too personal. She was afraid to be bound by rules.   

In early 2020, while visiting an art collector friend on the East coast, she was captivated by some pipes covered with various fibers that were hanging above her friend’s sofa. She felt compelled to try out this novel art form. The results are on display in this show.

Jami Patterson, a visionary painter from Belvedere, California transforms landscapes, still lifes and flowers into dreamy realms that bridge the gap between reality and the ethereal.

Inspired by the ever-changing moods of Marin, every canvas she tackles is an opportunity to unveil the unseen, to reveal the secrets whispered by nature's beauty.

Through her art, Jami invites us to reimagine the world we know, to see it through the lens of wonder and possibility.

Lorene Edwards Forkner is an author and speaker whose work centers on exploring the wonders of the natural world. She writes a weekly gardening column for Pacific NW Magazine in The Seattle Times and is the author of numerous gardening titles, including the recently released ‘Color In and Out of the Garden’ (Abrams, 2022). Lorene is a warm and engaging speaker who uses imagery and language to tell garden/life stories that inspire and inform audiences. Find her online at ahandmadegarden.com.

Each person will receive all the materials to create a beautiful winter wreath including seasonal greens and trimmings. 

*Note: Images shown are represent the style of wreath that will be taught. Actual workshop flowers and arrangements will vary based on seasonal availability. Unfortunately there are no refunds on attendee cancellations. 

Each person will receive all the materials to create a beautiful fall wreath including seasonal greens and trimmings. 

Leo Bersamina was born in San Francisco, California and grew up surfing and fishing on the coast, just south of the city. Early on, Bersamina began studying art and design in Santa Cruz, California. Later he attended San Francisco State University to finish his BA with an emphasis in Studio Art. He received an MFA in Painting at Yale School of Art in New Haven, Connecticut.

Born into a family of artists, designers, and architects, Andrew Faulkner’s  paintings fuse the structural sensibilities of his architect father and the often riotous color sense of his interior designer mother. Faulkner studied painting at Trinity College with colorist George Chapman who was a student of Joseph Albers, where he learned the art of defining space with color and value. After 30 years of success in the graphic design field, Faulkner decided to get a real job and become a painter.

Faulkner’s work has been shown at numerous galleries throughout the U.S. His illustrations have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and Marin Magazine.