However you found me: welcome aboard.
ONE ARCHIVE.
ONE HUNDRED YEARS.
SunTurtle Studios is the home of Tim Cooney — six decades of songs, paintings, photographs, and film — and the hundred-year family archive behind it. At the center is a memoir, Taking the Helm: Compass and Tides, the story of how all of this came to be.
CURRENTLY FEATURING
From the Archive
Whatever brought you here, there is more
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READ
The Reading Room
The memoir, the essays, the logs kept at sea, and forty years of song lyrics. Start with the opening pages of Taking the Helm.
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LISTEN
The Basement Studio
Five volumes of original songs, written alongside the book — plus 200+ covers from fifty years of popular music, live on YouTube and from the studio on SoundCloud.
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SEE
Behind the Lens & Valley of the Moon
Paintings from the Valley of the Moon, and film and photographs from a lifetime of travel — concerts, coastlines.
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SHOP
The Studio Store
Coming Soon.
THE READING ROOM · THE MEMOIR
TAKING THE HELM:
COMPASS AND TIDES
The memoir at the heart of the collection — a multigenerational story of family, inheritance, secrecy, love, and reinvention.
LIVE — SONOMA & MARIN
THE COLLECTION, IN FIVE PARTS
- The Vault — Family Archive
- The Reading Room — Books, Essays & Lyrics
- The Basement Studio — Music
- Behind the Lens — Film, Photography & Video
- Valley of the Moon — Fine Art, Prints, Wildlife Film & Photography
Eight weeks ago I started opening the archive one day at a time. Tens of thousands of strangers found their way in, and some of them stayed.