Meaning of Home

Artists’ Narratives: Their History and Identity

The Belvedere Tiburon Library Art Gallery invited artists to share their personal stories through art.   We are proud to present the works of these talented artists.   Learn more about them and their artwork on our Participating Artists page.   Featured works are available for sale (pick up or shipping at the end of the exhibition).   Please contact us for information on purchasing art.

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Dillon Days
Dillon Days
Rebecca Wallerstein
$375.00


Dimensions: 17 x 24 x 1.5
Artist Statement: This photograph captures the architecture of my childhood nostalgia at Dillon Beach, a place I have returned to since I was a child. The vast shoreline serves as a backdrop to the restless vitality of youth, representing a feeling of home that is not a static place, but a boundless, internal energy. By softening the details into a rhythmic stillness, I focus on a vibrant innocence that remains a constant, living anchor in my life and work.
Home Has No Walls
Home Has No Walls
Elizabeth Needham
$500.00


Dimensions: 16 x 24 x 1
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 18.5 x 26.5"
Artist Statement: This is what home feels like to me–motion, connection, independence, and the shared rhythm of belonging. In a burst of spontaneous expression of joy, my daughter flings her arms and a leg in the air during a sunset walk in an open space near our home. Raylan and my husband, continue up the hill beside her, unaware of and unaffected by her exultation. The photograph holds a kind of unstudied grace, sunlight on skin, wind through grass, laughter carried on air.
Stravinsky's Miss Marple
Stravinsky's Miss Marple
William Johnston, Jr.
$250.00


Dimensions: 16 x 16
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 20" x 20"
Artist Statement: I am an amateur photographer. My friends keep reminding me of this non-professional status. I don’t mind. It frees me of ambition and of annoying vanity. I do what I want and spit in their eye.. “He’s only an amateur — forgive him for he knows not what he does.” If something I photograph turns a head, a note of amazement is struck.“Why, he’s only an amateur. Praise the Lord.” It means, too, that I’m not stuck in a box of someone else’s making. I can create my own boxes.
A Teacup Full of Light
A Teacup Full of Light
Becky Jaffe
$375.00


Dimensions: 18 x 24 x 1
Artist Statement: Home is the place where I pour myself a steaming teacup of quiet light.
Mara's Beautiful Roses
Mara's Beautiful Roses
Don Melandry
$300.00


Dimensions: 16 x 20 x 3
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 16" x 20"
Artist Statement: My wife, Mara LOVES her roses. I love to capture the beauty of what she grows. Roses, like most flowers are ephemeral and wither away. I want to preserve their beauty. I think others folks might enjoy her art.
Phone Home Tokyo
Phone Home Tokyo
Charis Moore
$200.00


Dimensions: 7 x 5
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 10” x 8”
Artist Statement: Magic is all around us, we must keep our eyes and mind open to the unexpected and beautiful.
Almost Home
Almost Home
William R. Glass
$550.00


Dimensions: 14 x 11
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 20" x 16"
Artist Statement: I observe the world with a photographer’s eye and seek compositions that might become the basis for paintings. I photograph and paint the ordinary world around us - you can find commentary in the work if you wish. I am less concerned that the observer seeks meaning in the work than that one might imagine oneself in that space.
Bay Quail
Bay Quail
Bradain Bello
$1,400.00


Dimensions: 30 x 22 x 1
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 32" x 24"
Artist Statement: The state bird, the California Quail, is known for its ability to thrive in a range of conditions, from urban to rural landscapes. Crab pots are not often seen outside coastal communities, but their above-ground storage is emblematic of conservation efforts due to shortened seasons; it remains a microcosm of human imposition on natural habitats (homes) for our native species, such as the quail.
Dowry #31
Dowry #31
Federica Armstrong
$700.00


Dimensions: 22 x 26
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): Unframed but present on hanger: 30"x26
Artist Statement: In the project The Dowry I explore family connections, memory and belonging, by transferring images of my family photo archive to vintage textiles using the cyanotype process. Through this alchemy, the fabrics that were once part of daily family life acquire new meaning. By blending the materiality of the fabric with the ephemeral nature of memory, The Dowry becomes a cathartic process of mourning, remembrance, and consolation.
Rousseau's Shoes
Rousseau's Shoes
William Johnston, Jr.
$250.00


Dimensions: 16 x 16
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 20" x 20"
Artist Statement: I am an amateur photographer. My friends keep reminding me of this non-professional status. I don’t mind. It frees me of ambition and of annoying vanity. I do what I want and spit in their eye.. “He’s only an amateur — forgive him for he knows not what he does.” If something I photograph turns a head, a note of amazement is struck.“Why, he’s only an amateur. Praise the Lord.” It means, too, that I’m not stuck in a box of someone else’s making. I can create my own boxes.
Robe
Robe
Gale O'Brien
$325.00


Dimensions: 16 x 24
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 19" x 27"
Artist Statement: Sometimes home is a cozy bathrobe. In this photo, I intended to show how the lighting entered through the windows in different degrees, highlighting the robe. This is a black and white composition.
Going Home
Going Home
Steve Napoli
$300.00


Dimensions: 12 x 18
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 14"x 24"
Artist Statement: I am following in my Father's footsteps as an avid photographer. My favorite subjects are varied, from wildlife to landscapes. Also using digital tools to create and enhance what my camera has captured.
Nesting Nest Egg
Nesting Nest Egg
Tom Minczeski
$185.00


Dimensions: 8 x 8 x 0.0125
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 14" x 11"
Artist Statement: This image is about discovery and thinking about relationships in new ways. In this instance, finding a house finch nest with an unhatched egg long after the parents had abandoned it and placing it atop a nest of another sort, a pile of leaves.
Number 8
Number 8
Carol Thomas
$800.00


Dimensions: 15 x 10
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 20" X 17"
Artist Statement: This image is of a home, Number 8, in Chefchaouen (the Blue city), in Morocco, Africa. Blue is my favorite color and to be surrounded by it in this village was incredible!
Nora and Henrietta
Nora and Henrietta
Mima Cataldo
$500.00


Dimensions: 15 x 11
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 22" x 18"
Artist Statement: Nora and Henrietta are mother and daughter whose homes were state institutions for people with developmental disabilities. For most of their lives, they lived in separate institutions, but in the 1990’s when Nora was 47 years old they were reunited and lived together at the Syracuse Development Center.
A seasonal decoration becomes a home
A seasonal decoration becomes a home
Susie Kelly
$225.00


Dimensions: 11.5 x 11.5
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 20" x 20"
Artist Statement: In a forgotten Christmas wreath a finch family has built a nest, transforming a seasonal decoration into a home. The image speaks to the layered meanings of shelter: human rituals and natural instincts overlapping, continuity found in small adaptations, and belonging created by necessity and care. Home, here, is less about ownership and more about refuge, improvisation, and the surprising ways life reclaims and reinterprets our spaces.
Unmade bed
Unmade bed
William Johnston, Jr.
$250.00


Dimensions: 11 x 19 x 1.5
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 14 x 21
Artist Statement: I am an amateur photographer. My friends keep reminding me of this non-professional status. I don’t mind. It frees me of ambition and of annoying vanity. I do what I want and spit in their eye.. “He’s only an amateur — forgive him for he knows not what he does.” If something I photograph turns a head, a note of amazement is struck.“Why, he’s only an amateur. Praise the Lord.” It means, too, that I’m not stuck in a box of someone else’s making. I can create my own boxes.
In the Pink Tree
In the Pink Tree
Sara Silver
$195.00


Dimensions: 14 x 11
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 20" x 16"
Artist Statement: Through my work, I aim to turn a solitary moment in nature into a shared experience, reminding us that home is wherever we find a sense of belonging in the wild.
Status: SOLD
Breakfast Time
Breakfast Time
Gary Topper
$275.00


Dimensions: 12 x 16
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 17" x 22"
Artist Statement: My passion for photography is to be a story teller through the lens. Primarily an iPhone photographer, capturing the world, whether through people, places or the mundane, I want the viewer to contemplate and dialogue with the photograph.
"The Portrait"
"The Portrait"
MARSHA GUGGENHEIM
$450.00


Dimensions: 18 x 22
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 18" x 22"
Artist Statement: The Portrait: Light enters but does not fully reveal the room. A framed image holds a family moment—fixed, yet distant—while shadows stretch across the walls, marking time’s quiet passage. Home lives in these layered spaces, where family is both presence and memory, and what once felt immediate now exists just beyond reach.

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