Creativity has been my guiding light and refuge, nurturing my inner world amidst the evolving landscape of life. It has provided solace and love during times of unease, loss, and pain, as well as joy, bliss, and peace.
I strive to work from a higher feeling healing place, intertwining song, cacao, contemplation, art and beautiful imperfections. It's a journey about deep connection, unwavering resilience, and profound growth and how this can be a medicine for myself and others.
My creative path has never been linear, it’s more of a spiral, looping inward and outward, echoing the rhythms of nature and the cycles of healing. There have been times when I’ve felt completely lost, untethered from my own sense of self. In those moments, returning to my creativity felt like returning to breath. Even when words failed me, I could make a mark. I could meet what was there.
There’s something profoundly powerful about approaching a blank surface, not to fix or control, but to listen. My hands often know more than my mind. They remember softness. They remember rhythm.
They remember that nothing needs to be perfect.
I don’t create to escape life, I create to meet it more fully. The grief, the awe, the silence, the chaos, it all has a place. And through that presence, something alchemical unfolds.
My paintings are reflections, a prayer, the mystery and the intangible.
Over the years I have integrated many different medicine ways and combined them with my practice but the most profound was in 1998 by teachers from the Lakota Assiniboine Sioux lineage. Through time spent in sweat lodges and ceremony, I was entrusted with teachings that I now carry with reverence. The experience left an imprint on my soul, one that still guides my creative and spiritual path. In that space, I learned that healing doesn’t always speak in words, it speaks in symbols, sensation, breath, and presence. It was a return to the body, to the land, and to spirit all at once.
That experience planted seeds that continue to grow through every painting, those I work with and every silence I hold in my studio. It deepened my understanding that art, like ceremony, can be a portal: a way to remember who we are beneath the noise, to touch something eternal, and to honour the unseen.
My creative process has become its own kind of ritual, a sacred offering rooted in listening, quiet and devotion. Art is an anchor and a medicine teacher and through 1:1 and group art classes I work with creativity in a sacred way.
My work has continued to evolve, shaped by loss, love and Buddhist philosophy, devotional teachings, and the quiet holiness I find in everyday moments. Whether it's a light across the floor, a cracked stone, a conversation, I'm drawn to the kind of beauty that asks us to slow down and be with it.
I paint to make space for that kind of stillness—for the extraordinary within the ordinary.
