Julie Nygaard Art

"Namaste" 2019 Copyright Julie Nygaard Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon "Silence is sometimes the best answer." - Dalai Lama XIV

Grand Opening Monday July 1 2019 10 AM - 5 PM Special Reception 3 PM - 5 PM Located in the heart of the Cowichan Valley, just outside Duncan, B.C.  Off the T.C.H. in Koksilah ( look for the signs)  Hope to see you there!  I am sharing the space with four incredible artists...four fellow hens who are, Pauline Dueck Morgan Ann Designs Shades Of Green Pottery ( Janet Magdanz and Beverly Russell)

"The Watch" 2019 Copyright Julie Nygaard Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon "To soar with eagles, all you need to do is  believe that you can fly."  - Anthony T. Hincks

"West Coast - Full Moon" 2019 Copyright Julie Nygaard Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon "I could see every pebble on the path,  and every blade of grass,  by that splendid moon."  - Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights 

"Lion's Gate - Spiral" 2019 Copyright Julie Nygaard Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon  "That's the place to get to - nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world's somewheres, into our own nowhere."  - D.H. Lawrence, Woman In Love 

"The Butter Church"  2018 Copyright Julie Nygaard Digital Photography - Canon  The beautiful Butter Church, located in the Cowichan Valley.   http://twpaterson.com/cowichans-old-stone-butter-church/

I was looking through my files and here is one  of my son...one of my favorite humans.  Missing my days taking portraits and hoping that sooner than later,  I can take more work on again with health permitting.  "Kyle - Sand texture"  2018 Copyright Julie Nygaard Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon 

"Transformation" 2019 Copyright Julie Nygaard Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon  "We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time." -T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets 

"Layers - Life Experiences" 2019 Copyright Julie Nygaard Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon  "Life is a succession of lessons which must  be lived to be understood."  - Ralph Waldo Emerson 

"The Wild" 2019 Copyright Julie Nygaard Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon "Each summer's night, the woods abound with sounds.  And I always thought how wonderful nature  sings even when it's asleep. "  - Craig D. Lounsbrough

"Then Summer Came" 2019 Copyright Julie Nygaard Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon  "And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves  growing on the trees, just as things  grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction  that life was beginning over again  with the summer."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby 

"June - The Awakening" 2019 Copyright Julie Nygaard Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon  June has always been a month of reawakening for me.  Not only is it the month I began my existence in this lifetime,  I also see it as a month of starting over again...a time of reflection  and growth, as I gain another year of life, another year of experiences.  Looking forward to the journey as always. Life is ART. 

"Twilight" 2019 Copyright Julie Nygaard Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon  "How far that little candle throws his beams!  So shines a good deed in a weary world."  - William Shakespeare, The Merchant Of Venice 

I love going through some of my poems from years gone by.  This one in particular I wrote around 1991-92 and was  published in a local poetry book in 2010 called Out Of The Warm Land. I will, at some point, put my personal writings  and poetry to my visual creations.  I have added my written works to a few creations in the past.  Untitled Memory  "Sitting in a state of confusion  Thoughts go through my head Not knowing what is right Not knowing what is wrong The truth seems so far away Mind over matter Things clutter my brain Memories Knowledge Feelings  Fill my head - I don't want to remember you" - Julie Nygaard 

"sin lluvia no hay flores" 2019  Copyright Julie Nygaard Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon "At night I dream that you and I are two plants that grew together, roots entwined,  and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth,  since we are made of earth and rain."  - Pablo Neruda, Regalo de un Poeta 

"To Sail - Monochrome" 2019 Copyright Julie Nygaard Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon  "Hark, now hear the sailors cry,  Smell the sea and feel the sky,  Let your soul and spirit fly, into the mystic" - Van Morrison 

"Siwash Rock Pop Art" 2019 Copyright Julie Nygaard Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon  Located in Stanley Park in Vancouver, B.C., Canada.  Legend surrounds this beautiful, natural made rock formation by  the local Squamish Nation. Visited by tourists from near and  far, a place of passing by those walking the Stanley Park Seawall,  Siwash Rock, a natural monument for all people. 

"Beauty In The Beast" 2019 Copyright Julie Nygaard Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon  I love how this came into being from a photograph of a rose in my garden.  "Creativity connects me to my truest self and vulnerability.  There is nothing more personally liberating than reaching for my face  and peeling of the social mask that hides my shadow self, pain and weakness.  When I produce from this place of truth, the results transform both  creator and beholder."  - Jaeda DeWalt 

"Branches" 2019 Copyright Julie Nygaard Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon  I have been so blessed to have many of my childhood  friends still in my life. We have all taken different  roads but we will always be connected. 

"Flight Over The City - Blackbirds Of Burnaby" 2019 Copyright Julie Nygaard Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon The incredible journey of the blackbirds back and forth daily  from Burnaby to downtown Vancouver then back again.  It is a sight to behold.  "In order to see birds it is necessary to  become a part of the silence."  -Robert Lynd 

"Calling Of The Blackbird - Estuary" 2019 Copyright Julie Nygaard Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon  "Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience."  - Ralph Waldo Emerson