A visual interpretation of gardens that nurture and inspire.

DaSpace 1192 Smith Str., Chinatown, 2nd Floor
Studio Be 63 N. Beretania St., Chinatown 351-4960 www.studiobehawaii.com

ART, VISIONS AND POETRY BY GABRIELLE CINELLI

Gabrielle Cinelli was born and raised in Albuquerque New Mexico, beautiful mountain desert country. She came from three generations of artists, and was highly talented at an early age. Art simply was one of the ways that she communicated with the world. She continued to expand her artist talent through a Psychology /Fine Art double major in college at CSU in Colorado and at UNM in New Mexico and apprenticed with a few fine artists in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She had a clear understanding of the connection between art making and the psyche and what powerful tools, counceling and art could have in helping individuals heal, and return to a more, integrated, magical sense of wholeness. Gabrielle then relocated to the Big Island of Hawaii, after a health crisis intiated a complete change in her life direction, she heard very clear visions regarding her destiny and her dreams...."Return to the Garden" She traveled around the Big Island, painting†her visions and teaching and learning much from the land, Pele, and the Hawaiian culture for three years. Along her travels she gathered information for a vision that came to her during her health crisis. She had seen two people, in the vision these people were Adam and Eve, and she saw a small creative village, the Garden of Eden, beautiful hand made unique homes scattered organically along a hillside, the people that lived there were all craftsman, artists, musicians, architects, healers, there were gardens and sacred places, there were large theatres for shows and entertainment, there were new healthy technologies for energy, water, transportation, and there were many children that were loved and taught equally by all, life was lived interdependently among each other with the heavens and the earth. We've got to get "back to the garden" lyrics from an old Joni Mitchell song danced through her mind along her travels. And underneath the stark reality that our evening news often paints life as, Gabrielle began to view the magical side of her existence as being very real as well, the natives to the earth always knew this and created ways of communicating to their ancestors to the Great Spirt, to the Earth, and listened to the signs and creating intricate mythologies with their artwork, costume and story telling and rituals, their is a profound sacredness to all of life, and each of us is a part of this sacredness.

"Everybody has a dream, a feeling in their heart, visions, images of their destiny, of their GIFT to give to the world, it is my belief that each of these dreams is really who we are, not the limited self that our culture often teaches, but the magical self. It is my belief that our full potential as this magical self is more easily realized in a more natural setting of enjoyment and service in creative, interdependent communities and villages."

All the proceeds for Gabrielle's artwork goes towards†funding for creating and sustaining community projects around the world.......Returns to the Garden.

Gabrielle is currently teaching figurative classes and childrens art classes at DaSpace, as well as individual lessons.

ARTIST, AUTHOR TAMMY YEE

Award-winning author/artist Tammy Yee grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii, where she explored tide pools, swam in streams, and wrote and illustrated spooky stories her teachers politely read. After she graduated from college she worked as a pediatric registered nurse. Having children rekindled her love for picture books, so in 1994 she exchanged her stethoscope for a paintbrush and she's been writing and illustrating ever since.

Tammy has published 27 books including The Tsunami Quilt (written by Anthony Fredericks, Sleeping Bear Press), Honor Awards winner for the 2008 Storytelling World Awards in the Stories for Pre-Adolescent Listeners category and one of The Bank Street College of Education's "Best Books of the Year" for 2007; A is for Aloha (written by Uilani Goldsberry, Sleeping Bear Press), selected by the Hawaii Center for the Book to represent the state at the 2006 National Book Festival; Lullaby Moon (written by Elaine Masters), winner of the 2003 Ka Palapala Po'okela Award for Excellence in Children's Books; and Baby Honu's Incredible Journey, an island children's classic which has sold more than 70,000 copies. She has also illustrated forensic assessment tools for the Hawaii Judiciary Children's Advocacy Center and educational material on the care of central lines in children, and is the webmaster for the Hawaii Chapter of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.

Tammy works tirelessly on conservation artwork, recently illustrating the Hawaiian Monk Seal for NOAA's Monk Seal Recovery Program poster, the Irrawaddy River dolphin for Baiji.org, and continues to work with marine biologist and award-winning author Ron Hirschi to promote environmental education.

In addition, Tammy has given numerous presentations in schools and libraries across Hawaii. She has presented at the 2000 Hawaii Island Writers Conference, the 2005 Read To Me Conference in Honolulu, the 2005 and 2006 SCBWI-Hawaii Annual Conferences and the 2007 Honolulu Writer's Conference. Her paintings are on display at the Mazza Museum in Findlay, Ohio and the Department of Minority Health at Harvard University.