I experience my art as a radical response and prayer to life.  Each piece develops as a deep, evolutionary process, expressing my personal spiritual journey and the emotional vicissitudes of beingness.  The sculpture arises out of an erotic dance between my hands and the clay, as we give, yield, caress, and let go into the unknown. My creative hope is to connect to you, the viewer, at a heart level. I am grateful to you for witnessing my creations, for the experiences from which the art has emerged, and for “Source” through which they arise.  With my interest in Jungian psychology and world spirituality, my work often reflects archetypal themes.  I believe the more personal the piece, the more we touch into the heart of everyone.  We are all one.

BIOGRAPHY

My background includes a Masters in Spirituality from the Institute of Culture and Creation Spirituality, at Holy Names College, in Oakland CA, and a Ph.D. in Transpersonal Psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto CA (now Sofia University), with an emphasis on creativity and spiritual guidance.  I am a registered with the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association as an Expressive Arts Therapist. For 15 years, I taught masters level courses at several Universities in the Bay area (in the fields of transpersonal psychology, creativity and innovation, and expressive arts), facilitated expressive arts workshops, and offered individual sessions in expressive arts therapy. I am currently on the faculty of the Northwest Expressive Arts Institute, in Seattle, Washington.  I love facilitating the awakening of creativity as well as enlivening and connecting the souls journey through the heart center with the artistic medium of clay.

I am currently working at Northwest Ceramic Studio, in Phoenix, and at my own studio at home in Ashland.  I have shown my work in galleries in Christchurch New Zealand; Oakland, Santa Cruz, Palo Alto, and Sausalito, California; Tryon, Charlotte and Asheville, North Carolina; Tucson, Arizona, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and now Ashland ,Oregon where I have shown at the Ashland Art Center (no longer existing), the Pollinator Show, at Catalyst, Old World Artifacts, Crooked Mile, in Phoenix, and in the recent show Woman Kind at the Langford Gallery.