Beverly Anderson

Beverly Anderson is a fine-art photographer who lives amongst the redwoods in Mill Valley, California. Her fascination with photography began when her husband gave her her first camera, and it has stayed with her ever since. For Beverly, the secret to a fine photograph is composition, light and happy accidents. She is drawn above all to aerial landscapes, textures and the repetitive patterns of nature: the folded green hills of California seen from the air, the red towers of Monument Valley and Bryce Canyon, the grain of an old barn door in Wisconsin, a stack of painted boxes in Portsmouth, a row of canoes in Sonoma. Her travel photographs carry the same eye for pattern and colour to the boats of Lake Orta and Lake Garda, the doors of San Miguel de Allende, laundry lines in Venice and the hills of Tuscany, and her floral studies of peonies, tulips and calla lilies bring it close up. Beverly holds a B.A. from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, and took art courses at the University of Colorado, the University of San Diego, San Diego State and the College of Marin. Her photographs were shown in San Francisco and Mill Valley, including the Mill Valley Art Walk, and she took part in Mt. Tam Artists Open Studios. Her aerial work appears in the book Over Minnesota (Weldon Owen). Her photographs are in the collections of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the San Marcos Civic Center in California and Trillium Asset Management in Boston and San Francisco, as well as in private collections in California, Paris, London and Amsterdam.