“Gratitude, Grace, & Balance” – a day of SoulCollage®

Please join me for my upcoming workshop on June 22, a sweet and soulful day devoted to the practice of gratitude, the recognition of grace, and the importance of balance in our lives.

Ke Ola Magazine Featured Artist

I’m happy to be the featured artist in one of my favorite island magazines, Ke Ola (The Life)! Although this wonderful publication has been on the Big Island for some years, they just made their Maui debut in April. My painting “Hi’iaka’s Prayer” is featured on the cover, and an article on my art and […]

SoulCollage® Dancing with the Shadow

Workshop: Saturday, October 20, 2012 The Shadow aspects of the human psyche can be described as vital, passionate, and often creative energies that fall out of balance. When we shine the light of our awareness on these parts of ourselves by acknowledging and making SoulCollage® cards for them, they begin to find a place of […]

Video Interview

This short interview describes what inspires me to create, the value of art-making as a transformative tool in my life, and why and how I share this process with others. I am just launching my YouTube channel. If you are a YouTube user, please connect with me there!

How to Organize Images for Collage

Why I store my collage images in Ziploc bags… Over the years I have collected an enormous trove of images that I use in my personal art and journals as well as in my workshops and private sessions. Being able to find what I need when the inspiration strikes is the biggest challenge, so I’ve […]

Queen of Hearts

I was asked to illustrate a playing card, the Queen of Hearts, to represent Hawaii for a deck called the U.S.A. Project. The company, Art in Hand Cards, chose a varied group of artists to represent the entire nation in a single deck of playing cards. I just received the printed deck, and it’s fabulous! […]

Finding Images for Collage – Part 1

I use a lot of collage in my work, primarily in mixed media pieces, visual journal pages, and in my SoulCollage® cards. Before you start collecting, let me give you fair warning… it’s addictive. Once you develop an eye for spotting great collage imagery, you’ll be knee deep in pictures, patterned papers, and other things […]

SoulCollage® Source Cards Workshop

Saturday, June 2, 2012 The 3 Source cards in the SoulCollage® deck – Source, SoulEssence, and Witness symbolize the Oneness of all things. They are Transpersonal cards that have “no form and therefor no potential for Shadow* as do the other cards we create. Working in silence will be an important ingredient when we gather […]