Robyn Darwin's 25-year photographic journey is an exploration of worlds both familiar and remote, internal and external. Of equal significance and mystery, are the liminal spaces she encounters on this path.

The southern California beach kid dreams of lands beyond her edge of the Pacific Ocean and, for a few years, she lives on Guam and Oahu. While at UC Berkeley, the need to understand the context in which she paints, compels her to develop a second major in art history. Studies, at least in part, touch on what it means to be human: the unquenchable desire to create visual expressions of our existence. After graduation, nearly two decades in corporate Community Relations open doors to contemporary cultures and issues in unexpected ways. Always time and place are woven together by an overriding passion for photography. Knowledge of the art is expanded through work with photographers such as Judy Dater and Michelle Vignes.

In the end, this San Francisco Bay Area photographer believes her inspiration comes from the people with whom she interacts. Her photographs are intimate moments, touchstones of memory. They are continually evolving riffs on the human condition, past and present.