I believe making art is one of the ways we come home to ourselves.

I’m an artist, coach, and lifelong student of the creative life.

I’ve always been drawn to the blank page as a kind of salvation—or sanity. And for more than forty years, creativity has been the thread running through the different lives I’ve lived.

At 19, while interning in Washington, DC, I discovered that making collages could bring me back to myself.

At 21, living in West Berlin, I found my calling as a singer-songwriter. For the next decade, music took me into a life I’d dreamed of: writing songs, performing, touring, recording, and eventually hearing my own music on the radio.

Later, wanting to make a living without leaving creativity behind, my husband and I built a pottery business together. It became another dream come true—a way of making creativity part of the life we were actually living.

And eventually, I burned out.

That experience changed the questions I was asking.

I began to understand that a creative life isn’t simply about finding a way to make a living from what you love. It’s also about knowing how to stay in relationship with the part of yourself that creates.

Years later, in 2005, I began a large-scale, multi-layered acrylic painting. As I worked, something happened that I can still remember vividly. I felt as if I were seeing my life flash before my eyes.

I kept painting.

I haven’t stopped.

A life of creative reinvention

I’ve changed mediums. I’ve changed places. I’ve left identities behind and discovered new ones.

I’ve moved from San Francisco to Santa Fe and eventually to rural Northern New Mexico. I’ve been a performer, recording artist, potter, business owner, painter, workshop facilitator, and coach.

My creative life has never been a straight line.

And neither is anyone else’s.

I’ve learned that returning to creativity doesn’t always mean going backward. Sometimes we aren’t trying to recover the person we once were.

We’re trying to discover how that creative part of us wants to live now.

That is a journey I know intimately.

Me Making Art

For more than two decades, I’ve devoted myself to intuitive painting.

Painting large with acrylics has taught me to follow color, texture, sensation, and impulse without knowing where the work is going to take me.

It has taught me to welcome uncertainty, loosen my grip on judgment, and trust that the painting can reveal something I couldn’t have planned.

The creative process continues to ask something of me:

To stay curious.

To let go.

To listen.

To trust what is emerging before I fully understand it.

Facilitating

Since 2006, I’ve offered intuitive painting workshops in Northern New Mexico.

Again and again, I’ve watched people move beyond self-judgment, take creative risks, and discover voices they didn’t know were there.

I’ve learned that people often don’t need more instruction.

They need a space where they can hear themselves, trust themselves, and enjoy the surprises that come through the paint.

That understanding has become central to my work as a coach, too.

Coaching 

I began coaching in 2009 after completing my training through Newfield Network in Boulder, Colorado, and went on to become a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coaching Federation.

Over the years, I’ve continued to study human transformation, including somatic awareness, Internal Family Systems, Jungian and archetypal psychology, nervous-system regulation, and other approaches that deepen our relationship with ourselves.

But training is only part of what I bring.

Some of my deepest learning has come from my own years of therapy, inner work, and the unexpected turns life has taken.

I’ve learned that becoming more fully ourselves isn’t something we accomplish once and then check off.

It’s a practice.

It’s a relationship.

It’s a journey.

What I believe

I believe creativity is not simply something we produce.

It is a way we come into deeper relationship with ourselves.

I believe the creative self doesn’t disappear when life gets busy. Sometimes it simply gets quieter.

And I believe that when we make room to listen again, something begins to return—not necessarily the person we used to be, but something alive and uniquely ours.

This is what I love helping people do.

Find their way back to their own art life.

Come home to themselves.

And discover what wants to come alive now.

Background

Professional Certified Coach (PCC)
International Coaching Federation · Newfield Network
Coaching since 2009

BA, Social Sciences
University of California, Berkeley, 1987

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