About Me

I have always been fascinated by the inner life - the heart, the mind, the spirit - and that curiosity has taken me down many paths. I’ve spent months in silent meditation retreats, fasted alone in the wilderness, stayed with fire through the night, and lived and studied in India. Alongside these adventures, I work as a psychotherapist, immersed in the study of how people grow, heal, and create meaning.

Painting is one of the places where all of this converges. I don’t approach a canvas with a plan or an idea to execute. For me, painting is a conversation with color - an intuitive, responsive process of following what feels alive. I work with acrylics, watercolor, pastels, and layered materials, listening as colors interact, shift, and sometimes surprise me. Some pieces never come together; others arrive with a resonance I could never have predicted. Those moments keep me returning.

My devotion to color has become something of a lifelong study. At one point, I spent a month living entirely with blue - painting only in blue, wearing blue, and replacing the paintings in my home with blue - to deepen my relationship with its moods and meanings. That practice unexpectedly deepened my relationship with every other color, too. I often turn to Goethe, Steiner, and other thinkers on the esoteric life of color to enrich my own lived, felt experience of it. I am deeply grateful to artist Laura Summer, with whom I spent a year at Free Columbia studying and experiencing color. Her teaching anchored me more fully in how to live into and listen to the song of color.

When I’m not painting, I love learning new skills - ceramics, blacksmithing, welding, growing pumpkins and flowers for fall displays, cooking, building things, or simply tinkering with whatever catches my imagination. At home in the Colorado mountains, I host painting nights with friends, sing in the community choir, and dream about someday filling my barn with donkeys. My beloved canine friends - Maggie, Jax, and Mo - make sure that life always has its share of play.

At its heart, painting is my way of being with awe. Color has a way of holding complexity without needing to explain it. My work is a quiet devotion to that presence - to listening, to wonder, and to seeing what wants to emerge.