I believe creativity is gift-giving in the highest form.

“When we express our creativity, we are a conduit for the great creator to explore, express, and expand it’s divine nature and our own. We are like songbirds. When one of us gives voice to our true nature, it is contagious and others soon give tongue as well.”   -Julia Cameron

I’m not sure when I came across this passage in one of Julia’s books, I just remember the way I was impressed by it. I was in awe to find this perfect description of how I understood what art meant to me because I knew it was the meaning to which all my work would be held up with. I read it again and again, I wrote it out and taped it up where I could see it, it became my spine.  Being this conduit, this songbird, as Julia so eloquently expressed, is what I’m building on, every day.

A process like this is a living, breathing project, one that flows with no ending and with many mediums. My current focus includes a devotion to watercolor painting, analog photography via my vintage camera collection and oil painting on my original photos.  I hope to bring nostalgia and a kind of reverence in my works and hope you find some joy in them too.

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My work has been featured in the publications like New York Times Fashion & Style page, Chronicle books, Somerset Studios, Forbes Traveler, Vogue and more. My paintings, photographs and jewelry line has been shown in galleries on the east and west coast United States and sold to private collections around the world. After living and traveling in South America a couple years ago, I returned to my native pacific northwest roots and fell back in love with Seattle, where I grew up.  When I’m not working in my studio, I’m at home with my two sweet boys (whom I often refer to as my greatest creations) and falling deeper in love with my soul mate.  He’s just the most dashing man.  So you could say that I’ve found my happily ever after and I wouldn’t correct you!

If you have any questions or comments – please don’t be shy!  I love to hear from from my blog readers and find them to be a great inspiration and unique connection that I cherish and appreciate.  Friendships that are found and fostered through the years have turned into some of the greatest connections I could hope for and it always started with a simple hello or small comment through my blogging experience.