07/03/2026
~About the Artists~
Colette Girard
For most of my professional career, I worked as a Licensed Professional Counselor, specializing in the treatment of anxiety disorders. After retirement several years ago, my lifelong interest in photography evolved into a deeper appreciation of all things artful. My current body of work represents the efforts of all those who discover artistic expression later in life, and who continue to learn, to create and to flourish.
My artwork is influenced by Miksang, a form of contemplative photography which seeks to clearly see and to appreciate the vividness of the visual world. I photograph common, everyday objects, viewed from unusual perspectives. My images emphasize bright colors and reflective light.
Images are infused into metal to enhance the quality of luminescence. All are actual photographs - cropped, but not digitally generated. Most are unaltered Macro Photographs. Using metal fabrication techniques, I've recently created a collection of handmade jewelry from small pieces of my abstract aluminum prints.
Kristine Hinrichs
I am a creature of the city and attracted to the many layers of my surroundings, an outgrowth of my training in urban planning. My images focus a re-imagining of the urban (and sometimes rural) landscape - layers, reflections, movement as well as the people who inhabit it. I want the viewer to wonder what they are looking at and see the relationships between the elements of my images. I am always on the look-out for the unusual, incongruous, and things that others would never notice.
My practice involves photographing and posting to social media every day, generally in the early morning. I have not missed a day since I started a “Project 365” on July 2, 2011. This daily work allows me to document my surroundings and puts me in a position for images to “find me”.
I now most often translate the “hard” look of a paper or metal print to fabric, primarily silk. These pieces complement my traditional photographic prints. I find that this soft and luxurious silk provides a counterpoint to the two-dimensional photographic print and adds something unexpected. It also provides a counterpoint to the digital photographic process – one very technology focused – to the living breathing natural silk fabric and the hand-sewing involved in producing the pieces.
~Elemental Lenscapes is showing until August 2nd, with the opening reception July 10th~
