The phrase ” this is not a house but a home” could be used to speak to the quality of my images. You stand in front of an invitation, a portal into your own sense of what it means to be a whole human being and the dimensionality of that journey.  Each painting is an invitation to notice the process of living, of expressing ourselves in the deepest most authentic ways possible and to experience what it means to be alive today, in these bodies, during these times, which have never been before.

I am alive in my body. My journey moves through decades of expressing myself through the creative acts of dancing, baking, parenting, gardening, loving, grieving, living out loud until the moment came, a distinct moment in my life span, when I needed a creative form that was mutable and yet tangible,  emergent yet stable, transformative and yet static, something I could share with others beyond the present moment.  I began writing and then I began painting – I studied Intentional Creativity with Shiloh Sophia and found my way to the canvas in ways previously only felt and moved in my body practices.  I watched myself begin to emerge in tangible forms, capturing what was moving inside of me through color, words, shapes, and museful wanderings onto the canvas.  

I began creating layers of texture and color made of thought, emotions, and beliefs, each layer a portal for me to walk through, each layer a lesson in impermanence and letting go.  I would grieve on one layer, pour my joy in being alive through another until something began to emerge though all those layers, and as part of all the layers.  Any form that emerges surprises me, invites me deeper into myself and into the journey the painting is taking me on until, one day, I set that canvas aside and begin another.  No canvas ever feels finished or complete, however each canvas has its moment in the listening process when ‘good enough’  is the moment to stop, sit back, sign and send the image out into the world to continue its journey, to continue the conversation  with you.

Allow yourself to journey into each one.  Take up a pen and paper and write a letter to yourself while looking into the portal of the painting you are sitting/standing in front of.  What journey does it take you on?  Stop at any moment along the process and write your own words, splash your own color, move your own dream, feel how alive you are, right now, how much of yourself you can feel.  Be in your body, let the images, the color, the words move you.

This is not a painting – this is you waking up!