I’ve had a camera in my hand since I was a child growing up in Colorado Springs. Successfully pursuing a long career in public relations, marketing, advertising and consumer education in Hawaii and San Francisco, photography was an important part of my work. I married my husband, Don, and retired to raise our two children on our beloved Corinthian Island.
Macro-photography opened a whole new world to me with over 20 solo exhibitions benefitting non-profits.
StatementJoan Linn Bekins’ images bring to mind Georgia O’Keefe’s “up-close-and-personal” look at flowers. Bekins' visual expression of beauty, through contour, shape, and color take form and realism and abstraction. She uses the camera the way an artist uses a paintbrush, evoking detail in the perfection of nature. Her images are an expression of her passion and commitment to the natural world — as a volunteer crusader and filmmaker for Terwilliger nature education.
