MY INVITATION TO YOU!

I welcome each of you who choses to visit my website.  My purpose in creating it has been to offer each of you a quiet, immersive experience, allowing you an oasis away from the clutter of life.  

It can be a place of rejuvenation, a home that offers you a sacred space in which to immerse yourself. Hopefully, it also provides you a quiet space to embrace your soul and, in this quiet connection to listen to the voices of the art pieces as they speak to you.

I have often been asked how I create my images. What is the process? To be honest with you, this same question was in my own mind for many years. At this point, I feel I have some insights that have given me a sacred understanding of how I do create each piece. To answer this question, I need to take you on a short journey.

My earliest memory of wanting to create came from drawing clothes from a paper doll when I was about 7 years old. I loved to trace around the paper figure and dream up elaborate gowns for her.  I was fascinated by color and I went through many boxes of crayons, often using my weekly allowance to buy paper and crayons.

A second memory is sitting in a flower filled field, close to our home, that was filled with hollyhocks. My friends and I would collect the bulbs and flowers and create elaborate imaginative wedding figures.

I have been fortunate that I had wonderful college teachers who kindly allowed me to play "outside the box" with my assignments, rare completing the project without taking it in an original direction.

I would often ask myself "Where do these images come from?" "How do I know which color us, what direction to go? My creative process is totally internal. In the past several years I have embraced the quantum world, where all possibilities exist. This allows me a great peacefulness when I create. I will usually sense when an idea is germinating, it may takes weeks to come through within me. I am peaceful with the timing.

I simply sit with the emptiness of a blank canvas, paper or fabric and wait for the inspiration to begin to speak to me. Then my magical journey begins, the paint flows, the image emerges, often directing me with subtle insights as how I should proceed. For me, there is no place I would rather be, caught in the privilege of doing what I love and sharing it with you.