...an intuitive artist, teacher, and forever student of the creative process.
I’ve been painting and teaching for over 20 years, but honestly, my work didn’t really come alive until I stopped trying to make things “look right” and started listening instead. These days, my art is all about process. I follow color, shape, and movement… layering marks, building texture (I love a good stencil moment), and letting each piece unfold in its own time.
I have a Master of Arts in Creativity, which gave me language and structure for something I had already felt for a long time—that art isn’t just about making something beautiful. It’s about connection. It’s about getting honest. It’s about letting something move through you that you didn’t even know was there.
Nature plays a big role in how I see and create. Not in a “let me paint this exactly” kind of way, but in the way everything is always becoming—growing, shifting, unraveling, starting again. My work follows that same rhythm. Messy, layered, imperfect… and alive.
Alongside my own art practice, I create spaces for other people to experience that too. I host paint and sip gatherings (or as I like to call them, a little less pressure, a little more play), and I also offer deeper, more immersive art experiences for those who want to go inward and explore what creativity can open up.
If there’s one thing I believe, it’s this: you don’t have to be “an artist” to create. You already are. Sometimes you just need a little space, a little permission… and maybe someone to remind you how.
And there's a reason that works.
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Zero pressure. Just show up.
The Science of Art & The Truth About Play
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Creativity isn't reserved for a talented few. It belongs to all of us.
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We are born with the desire to express, to make, to communicate. Before words... before rules... before "doing it right"... there was mark-making.
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Color. Shape. Feeling.
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Art doesn't start on the canvas. It starts within us. It's one of the first ways we learn to speak from that inner world -- the one made of memory, emotion, and meaning. And here's the beautiful part: science is catching up to what we've always known.
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Research in psychology and neuroscience shows that engaging with art --- whether you're witnessing it or creating it --- can reduce stress, ease anxiety and support emotional growth.
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It reconnects us.
To ourselves.
To each other.
To the spaces we live in... and to the natural world we're part of.
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And the doorway to all of this?
Play.
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Play isn't frivolous. It's powerful. It's how we learn, how we connect, how we grow --- not just as children, but as humans. The truth is... we don't outgrow play. We just forget how. Somewhere along the way, we trade curiosity for certainty. Exploration for "getting it right." Play for performance.
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But when we come back to it --- when we let ourselves experiment, make a mess, try something new --- something shifts. Play gives us a safe place to be brave. To take risks. To feel what it's like to not know... and keep going anyway. It stretches us. It opens us. It reminds us there is more available than what we've been practicing.
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Because growth doesn't happen inside the comfort zone. It happens right at the edge of it --- where things feel a little unfamiliar... and a little alive.
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This is exactly what I create space for.
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A place to loosen the grip of "getting it right." To step out of the noise of everyday life and into something more present, more honest... more you.
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In my classes and gatherings, art becomes less about the finished piece--- and more about the experience of making. It's where play returns. Where curiosity leads. Where you're invited to explore without pressure, expectation, or perfection. Sometimes that looks like paint on your hands and laughter around the table. Sometimes it's quieter... more inward... a deeper kind of noticing.
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But every time, it's an opportunity to reconnect--- with your creativity, your voice and the parts of yourself that don't always get space in the day-to-day.
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You don't need experience.
You don't need to be "good" at art.
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You just need a willingness to show up... exactly as you are.
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You're always welcome at the table.
When you're ready, I'd love to create with you.
No experience needed. All materials included.​