Garden Prayers: Spring

T.M. Givens

Garden Prayers: Spring is the second collection of drawings in this series from artist T.M. Givens. These pen-and-ink drawings—made primarily at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden in Claremont, California and at Katie and Clyde’s house in Cambria—are, as the artist says, “still part of the meditation I experience while looking at or experiencing or talking to or wondering about or thinking of these living places.”

Other books in the series: Garden Prayers

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T.M. Givens has exhibited in a variety of media, with sculpture at the Ankrum Gallery, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Chaffey College, and with drawings and paintings in a variety of galleries in Sacramento. In 2018, the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden exhibited his drawings in a changing exhibition titled “Terry Givens: 100 Garden Views.”
He has contributed many drawings to organizations, individuals, and businesses in and around Claremont. A collection of his political cartoons appear in the book Diary of a Mad House-Husband. In addition, he has curated exhibitions at the Rex Wignall Gallery in Ontario and the Riverside Art Museum. He taught art and photography in a variety of local elementary and secondary schools, as well as at local universities and colleges.
Terry and Carolyne Givens live in Upland.