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ArtsaRound Gallery at Berger

October Exhibit - October 2-October 31, 2006

Featured Artists

Mark Dawson & Dixie Walker

Meet Mark Dawson...

Mark Dawson resides in Amsterdam. He is excited about returning home to Circleville, Ohio and to Berger Hospital, the place of his birth, for his exhibit in the ArtsaRound Gallery at Berger. In Amsterdam, Mark earns his living through photography and various business and IT consulting projects. He travels extensively whenever he can get away from his desk job and his love for traveling is evident in his photography.

Mark has been interested in photography as long as he can remember. While a student at Circleville High School, he enjoyed learning the techniques behind photography from Lynn Kraus, but was frustrated by the overwhelming complexity and the difficulty in practicing with film. Mark feels that digital has been an incredible boon, making the learning and experimenting infinitely easier, immediate, and affordable. He is more at home behind a computer with Photoshop than in a darkroom with his Granddad's old out-of-alignment enlarger, trying to get rid of a pesky power line. He says he does miss the smell of stopbath in the morning.

Brugges, Belgium Mark has gone through countless cameras including an old 110, a disc, several 35mm point-and-shoots, underwater disposables, two manual-focus Minolta SLRs, and a couple of digital point-and-shoot. He even had one camera mounted in the nose of a model rocket (combining two hobbies in one!) but that met its bitter end crashing into a concrete parking lot.

Photos in this exhibit were taken with the following equipment: Canon EOS 20d dSLR; Canon 16-35mm f/2.8 L USM lens; Canon 70-200mm f/2.8 L USM lens; Canon 28mm f/1.8 USM lens; Lexar 80x Professional 1GB & 2GB compact flash cards; Canon Speedlite 420EX flash; B+W & Heliopan UV and circular polarizing filters. For more information about Mark and his work, visit www.nomadicfrog.com.

Mark's Exhibit includes the following pieces:

Autumn in Circleville $195
Brugges, Belgium $150
Court Street, Pumpkin Show, Circleville, Ohio $95
Desert Campfire, Western Desert, Egypt $135
Desert Rock Formation (L), White Desert, Egypt $145
Desert Rock Formation (P), White Desert, Egypt $115
Dhakla Dune One, Egypt $195
Drawbridge, Church, Edam, The Netherlands $135
Enkhuizen One, The Netherlands $150
Enkhuizen Two, The Netherlands $165
Footprints, Western Desert, Egypt $135
Gothic Colonnade, Toledo, Spain $150
Large Pumpkins, Circleville, Ohio $85
Leliegracht, No Snow, Amsterdam $150
Leilegracht, Snow, Amsterdam $150
Lone Tree, Ash Cave, Ohio $135

Low Tide on the Waddenzee, The Netherlands $135
Man Walking Under the Gate, Valencia, Spain $135
Massively Gothic, Cologne, Germany $195
Montelbaanstoren, Amsterdam $150
Moorish Arches, Alhambra, Granada, Spain $95
Nieuwe Kerk (New Church) & Dam Square, Amsterdam $165
Palo Borracho (drunken pole) Trees, Valencia, Spain $195
Pelicans at L'Oceanographic, Valencia, Spain $165
Pumpkin Show Ride, Circleville, Ohio $85
Rigging, Amsterdam $145
Sneaky Bird, Zaanse Schans, The Netherlands $85
Tall Ships, Amsterdam $165
The Alhambra, Granada, Spain $195
The Amstel River, During a Wedding $165
The Amstel River, During a Wedding (canvas) $250
The Rhine at Cologne, Germany $175
Windmills, Zaanse Schans, The Netherlands $175
Zaanse Schans, The Netherlands $150

Meet Dixie Walker...

Dixie's art has been showcased in the ArtsaRound Gallery at Berger before. She has became a favorite, and many of those who enjoyed her exhibits here before have purchased her pieces so they can continue to enjoy her work on their walls at home.

Dixie's art reveals her enjoyment of life, traveling, and her unique ability to capture the beauty of nature with her photography talent and skills.

Dixie lives in Circleville, and when she is not traveling or photographing, she serves on the Berger Health System team in the Emergency Department.

Dixie's Exhibit includes the following pieces:

A Study in Purple $150
A Walk in the Woods $150
Autumn Bounty $150
Fall in Southern Ohio $75
Fall Wall, Vermont $75
Frozen Fence $75
God Light $150
Iced Berries $150
Orchids $150
Red Bush $150

Red Toadstool, Mossy West VA $45

Seaside, Florida $150

Sunflower #1 $150

Sunflower #2 $150

Vermont Church $150

The art gallery at Berger Hospital is the result of a partnership between ArtsaRound and Berger Health System. ArtsaRound is a community based organization dedicated to supporting art and artists in Pickaway County and the regional area. Berger Health System is a community based health care system dedicated to providing quality care so that people do not need to travel outside of their own backyard to have their health care needs met.

The mission of the ArtsaRound Gallery at Berger is to foster the relationship between art and healing by providing a venue for artists, primarily from, but not limited to, Pickaway County and the regional area, to offer their work for the aesthetic pleasure of patients, visitors and staff. The initiatives of this unique program also contribute to the success of Berger Hospital’s mission "to be the best community hospital in the State of Ohio."

If you would like more information about the ArtsaRound Gallery at Berger, are interested in purchasing art, or are an artist interested in displaying your original art for sale, please contact:

Amy J. Cooper, MSMC
Business Relations and Services Representative
Berger Health System Business Development
Office: (740) 420-8487
Pager: (877) 802-2571
Cell: (740) 412-2088
amy.cooper@bergerhealth.com