Kaye Bonner Cummings Book Signing
Schedule
Sat Jun 19 2021 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm
Location
Clovis Book Barn | Clovis, CA
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“Look through nature up to nature’s God.”Alexander Pope
This book is in response to the lessons nature has to teach. And, why should nature be important to us? It brings us peace and renewal.
I was raised in an era where children spent a lot of time outdoors and, consequently, grew up appreciating so many details in nature.
Nature has its own rhythms, and when we sit still long enough to notice, it brings such effervescent joy and peace--the soul sense of connectedness to that which is greater than our comparatively insignificant worldliness—a spiritual dimension that empowers us through a sense of oneness with the Divine.
I have found this sense of oneness kayaking on Huntington Lake in the early morning hours while the water’s surface is at its reflective best. Years ago I began taking my camera to catch much of this stillness and beauty, which I now share with you. My approach is unique. I chose to photograph this beauty reflected on the still water’s surface.
Nearly every summer for my entire life I have spent summers at Huntington Lake, my spiritual home. It is time to honor this special place with photographs I took several years ago, along with my intimate feelings during early mornings kayaking along its shores for over 20 years. I dedicate this book to all those with their own memories of a very special place—Huntington Lake.
“Going to the mountains is like going home.”
John Muir
Kaye Bonner Cummings
The arts have been part of my entire life in one form or another. My mother painted and my father had been a singer.
My art career started in earnest with 4 years of drawing and painting classes at Clovis High School, followed by four years as an art history and studio art major at Stanford University.
Immediately upon graduation, I moved to Europe for 1 ½ years. I first lived with a family in Denmark where I worked briefly in the art department of an advertising agency. From there, I moved to Antwerp, Belgium, where I studied printmaking at the Art Academy and learned the art of stained-glass fabrication from a stained-glass artisan. Next, I moved to Florence, Italy, where I focused on pen and ink drawing and photography. Finally, I traveled throughout most of Europe sketching and photographing its splendors.
I returned to Fresno, completed a few stained-glass commissions, then entered Fresno State in an art Master’s program where I studied photography in earnest. I met and married the head of a stained-glass company in San Francisco, and after working there a couple of years, we moved the business to Fresno where I continued fabricating stained-glass windows. After 3 three years, we turned the business over to my brother-in-law, and my husband became an interior designer.
I focused on raising two children and turned to oil and watercolor painting for many years. I had many mostly watercolor exhibits – in private homes, a gallery and in 3 group exhibits at the Fresno Art Museum. Later, I left visual art production, tool singing lessons and joined the Fresno Community Chorus.
In 1991, I traveled with a small group of photographers under the auspices of the Ansel Adams Gallery in Yosemite on a trip to Alaska where I both learned more about photographic process and photographed images of the surroundings.
Then from 2000 to 2012, I traveled and photographed extensively throughout the world.
My main occupation since 1991 is as CEO of the Bonner Family Foundation, funders of primarily arts organizations.
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Where is it happening?
Clovis Book Barn, 640 Clovis Ave, Clovis, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
