I believe I was born dreaming. There hasn’t been a time I did not believe I was Artist. My experience of the world is beautiful to me; captivating. Every color, every sound and every...
It’s been awhile. Since I painted and didn’t feel frustrated or bored. I needed a break and I took one to think, process, give myself some loving kindness because that is the only place...
All of life on the canvas is a walk of grace versus boundaries. There are many questions to ask as you maneuver through your work; and I consider all my work…relationships, work, conversations with...
He is constantly making all things new within and without. I see His wonder working power breathing everything into life and I celebrate. Creating comes from our emotional state always no matter how little...
I’ve sat so many hours beside so many humans all vibrating to the same frequency of our Creator. Without us knowing we were not only tied together through suffering and compassion, the very cycle...
I decide to work within limits that will allow me to be kind to myself, giving grace where needed and avoiding a voice that pushes beyond this place that honors me because I’d not...
When the leaves of Summer’s fullness and warmth, chatter and connection have fallen away, we are left with our bare Winter souls. Exposed, our core stands tall amidst the Winter winds that whip knowing...
I create because I am incomplete if I don’t. It allows me to discover the voice of my heart when the busyness of life dulls it. It gives me a place of delight that...
Walking through our days we spend many moments looking inward as we think our many intrusive and compulsive thoughts or we look downward as we mindlessly follow the direction to complete the task at...
Our lives, just like our canvases are a compilation, a collection of the strokes laid down from every moment since it’s inception. We move. We think. We express. We make mistakes. We grow. We...
I can’t seem to separate them anymore. The more I practice each the more they become my mixed language; my Spanglish but I will call it “Penbrush.” It does seem with the frequent use...
We are challenged as artist to maintain and nourish our creative health in a world where we have constant input and stimulation pulling our attention and mental energy in scattered directions. During all of these...
Art for me has been an enormously therapeutic journey as it has allowed my broken parts to come together and discover what whole not only looks like but more importantly feels like. There have...
The earth in its entirety trembled. I felt it first as my feet padded the ground, walking amidst the winter tress full of their bare, beautiful lines. It is energy spread traveling until...
In a season where thankfulness is at the heart of why we come together with those we love over foods we also love I encourage you to fill your thoughts and thus your heart with...
I find in the wandering my solace, peace and deepest felt understanding of the freedom and beauty I am made to walk in. It is in these aimless and breathing meanderings that my Savior...
The Poetics of Space; a good book to read and a good way to think of the space you think and create in. The smell. The lighting. The windows. The time of day. What...