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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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.
Joy of Play
Joy of Play
Tom Purdy
$175.00


Dimensions: 14 x 11
Artist Statement: Nothing says home to me more than the joy of a child playing. This photo shows Whitney Feagin loving the pop up water feature.
The Wooden Hill to Bedfordshire
The Wooden Hill to Bedfordshire
Ian Price
$1,195.00


Dimensions: 40 x 11.5 x 1
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 49" x 20.5"
Artist Statement: Drawing on the nostalgic phrase "up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire", a childhood saying first used in a letter to The Morning Advertiser in 1856, it is a British idiom for going upstairs to bed. The words conjure up a more innocent time, redolent of the yearning for home. In this image, the 'wooden hill' is made modern – with warm neutral tones of blond wood, flat planes and graduated shafts of light. This staircase curves intriguingly to the left, the destination is hidden and can only be guessed at.
Room With a View from the Fading Memories Series
Room With a View from the Fading Memories Series
Sonia Melnikova-Raich
$425.00


Dimensions: 12 x 16
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 22" x 18"
Artist Statement: I draw inspiration from the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi, with its reverence for the subtle beauty of aged things and their fleeting, transient nature. I am particularly captivated by the poetry and mystique of abandoned houses—their melancholic beauty and the memories that linger within them. Overgrown yards, dusty or broken windows, and the remnants left behind stand as silent witnesses to past lives, carrying their haunting presence and a quiet longing for life to return.
In the Stillness I Am Home
In the Stillness I Am Home
Joyce Bell
$950.00


Dimensions: 20 x 40 x 1
Artist Statement: Home is not always a place. This image explores home as an inner experience—found within the self, in the recognition of love, and in moments of quiet belonging in the natural world. It reflects how identity, connection, and landscape shape the places where the heart comes to rest.
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.
San Francisco Home
San Francisco Home
Elise Odom
$250.00


Dimensions: 8 x 10
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 13" x 16"
Artist Statement: I am interested and aware of my surroundings and observe how people and animals live.
Mom's Favorite Washcloth
Mom's Favorite Washcloth
Don Melandry
$300.00


Dimensions: 16 x 20 x 5
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 16" x 20"
Artist Statement: When I was growing up I loved to watch (and occasionally help) my mother with the cooking. She always had a favorite towel in her apron or over her shoulder to help her hands clean. After dinner it was my chore to wash the dinner dishes. I loved to use her dish towel.
Granny's Fruit Bowl (Cairn)
Granny's Fruit Bowl (Cairn)
Ian Price
$1,195.00


Dimensions: 40 x 18 x 1
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 49" x 27"
Artist Statement: This image subverts a quintessentially vintage symbol of home life. Granny's Fruit Bowl may suggest nostalgia, comfort, warmth, and the 'good old days'. Especially in the case of mid-century kitchen decor, where fruit was widely used as a motif, particularly as plaster reliefs, or chalkware. This still life is a starkly contemporary interpretation of the genre, where fruit is hazardously stacked as a cairn – looking both succulent and precarious.
Blue Porch from Fading Memories Series
Blue Porch from Fading Memories Series
Sonia Melnikova-Raich
$425.00


Dimensions: 12 x 16
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 18" x 22"
Artist Statement: I draw inspiration from the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi, with its reverence for the subtle beauty of aged things and their fleeting, transient nature. I am particularly captivated by the poetry and mystique of abandoned houses—their melancholic beauty and the memories that linger within them. Overgrown yards, dusty or broken windows, and the remnants left behind stand as silent witnesses to past lives, carrying their haunting presence and a quiet longing for life to return.
At Our Beloved Home, Suitcases Are Ready for Our Next Adventure
At Our Beloved Home, Suitcases Are Ready for Our Next Adventure
Bob Hemstock
$350.00


Dimensions: 20 x 24 x 1
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 22" x 26"
Artist Statement: This is a photo of the upstairs rooms in Josie's mansion in Havana, Cuba. She provides access to photography workshop groups to give a sense of what it was like in the "old" days when wealthy people would vacation in Havana.
"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.
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.
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.
A View Within
A View Within
Hines
$500.00


Dimensions: 14 x 11 x 1
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 14" x 11"
Artist Statement: My photographic epiphany came when I realized that there were images that I wanted to photograph as references for my paintings, and others that were absolutely beautiful solely as photographs. At that moment I understand the dynamic potential of photography as another tool for myself expression.
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.
The Babies
The Babies
Mima Cataldo
$500.00


Dimensions: 14 x 11
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 22" x 18"
Artist Statement: I invited new mothers and their babies to meet in my home for a photographic gathering where we learned some of the nuances of our babies behaviors.
View of the Sawtooth Range from Eagle Peak, Mono County
View of the Sawtooth Range from Eagle Peak, Mono County
William Frick
$500.00


Dimensions: 8 x 21 x 1
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 13" X 27"
Artist Statement: Hiking and camping a lesser known peak of the Sierra Nevada (Eagle Peak), offers a spectacular view of the Sierra crest.
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.
Near Paradise Bay, Antarctica 2026
Near Paradise Bay, Antarctica 2026
Karen Ande
$575.00


Dimensions: 16 x 24 x 1
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 18" x 24"
Artist Statement: As an only child growing up in a toxic home environment, I rarely felt safe so I developed a different skill set from many of my peers. I escaped into our village library for hours accompanying Dr. Doolittle and Jane Eyre on their adventures, visiting places in my imagination I would one day see. I discovered a stubborn resilience and a gift for searching out all the light that was available at any time or any place. In short, I learned to carry home inside myself and find my way safel through dark spaces.

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