Creativity has always been a big part of my life.

Learning to find peace through the storms of life by using my hands and heart to express myself has been healing for me in recent years.

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Beautiful, unexpected encounters with nature and the complexity of being human continue to move me. I paint and write in response to what I see, experience and feel.

I don't always know what a painting means when I begin it. Sometimes I begin with a landscape, a tree, water, light or colour. Sometimes it is simply a thought or feeling that needs somewhere to go.

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I'm increasingly less concerned with technique and more interested in the experience of making—the freedom to explore, play and discover.

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I am drawn to the space where the visible and invisible meet, where a landscape can stir a memory or colour can express something words cannot. My poetry often becomes a place to process pain and move toward healing.

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I don't expect my work to say the same thing to everyone. I'm grateful when something I've made finds its way into someone else's experience.

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GRATITUDE

There is much I don't understand about life, but there is also much I don't want to take for granted.

I'm grateful for beauty, for people who have walked alongside me, for the natural world, for creativity, for the freedom to begin again, and for those unexpected moments of wonder that catch me by surprise.

My spiritual life increasingly informs how I see the world and what gives me hope.

Perhaps something will resonate with you. I would love to hear about it.