My Mission Is To Offer Awareness Of Your Beautiful Self
I Celebrate Your Wholeness
I came up staring into lakes. Water took me in. Also, huge Colorado skies , and in my young adult life there were dry deserts. I love them all. They are in my bones. I studied energy healing, spiritual healing, and body healing, trained in the visual arts and body therapy, now synthesized in my current work. I walked alone, with pup-pups, gathering.
I love to walk Earth,
feel deep into the sustenance which is our daily provider.
I have a mission to simply and authentically offer awareness.
We, as a collective, are untethered from our Source.
We, as a collective, are unaware of the subtle prompts & beauty & simplicity of
living in love with living.
My mission is to offer visuals to remind you of your personal beauty, your personal integrity, your personal worth.
Where else can we start?
My work is soft edged, a healing art using gentle abstractions. My work seeks connections with Source, a calm awareness of something extended--
deeper, broader, higher.
You Can Create Your Own Sacred Space
I desire to translate a feeling of CELEBRATION and ADVENTURE--
celebration of YOUR naturally-healed wholeness, your strengths & joys;
and adventure of visual images taking you into your joyous subconscious.
ENERGY STUDIES AUGMENTING ARTISTIC EXPRESSION
ISSHIN-RYU Karate Study, 1987-1995, Southern California.
Teacher Training at White Lotus Foundation, Certified Instructor,1996, Santa Barbara, California.
Institute of Psycho-Structural Balancing, Licensed Massage Therapist, 1997, Los Angeles, California, LMT.
International Professional School of Bodywork, Traditional Thai Yoga Therapy, 1997, San Diego, California, LThaiT.
Private Lomi-Lomi Massage training, 2000, Kauai, Hawaii.
Traditional Thai Yoga Massage Therapy, 1997-2000, Santa Monica, California and Kauai, Hawaii.
Foundation for Shamanic Studies in core shamanism, Three-Year Graduate and Advanced Trainings in Shamanism and Shamanic Healing, 1996-2001, West Coast, USA.
Sacred Dance private instruction 1993-2004, Los Angeles, California.
PERSONAL GEOGRAPHY
Born in Denver, Colorado, raised in southeast Colorado in wilderness, open plains of Nebraska, and rolling dells of Wisconsin.
Relocated to Berkeley, California as a young adult.
Fifteen summers in SE Alaska fjord forest, geologic field work & plein air painting.
Relocated to southern California and continued watercolor studies.
Conducted a personal exile to southwest Colorado near-wilderness for seven years where hiking, crawling, gathering and painting were paramount.
Relocated to the Portland metropolitan area summer 2012.
Painted and drew as a child, continuing throughout my maturing years.
EDUCATION
Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri, 1969-1971, interior design and fine art.
Berkeley, California, 1972-1978, drawing, watercolor, life drawing and sculpture at University of California, Berkeley Extension in San Francisco, Mills College, Oakland, California; plein aire watercolor painting Monterey, California University of the Pacific, Stockton, California professor.
Sierra Madre, California, 1983-1990, watercolor studies with a National Watercolor Society award-winning instructor; drawing and portraiture.
"Art As Moral Action," UCLA, Peter Sellars, American Theatre Director.
Painting and drawing in remote “field” locations for decades, 1971-Present.
