About
Artist • Author • Energy Therapist • Teacher
I have always been curious about what lies beneath the surface—of words, people, intuitive experiences, and, increasingly, art.
For much of my professional life, I was a professor of writing and a university administrator. I earned my PhD in composition and rhetoric, and teaching taught me something I still carry into nearly everything I do: I love helping people discover what they already know, what they are capable of learning, and what becomes possible when they begin to trust themselves.
After retiring from university life, my growing interest in energy, intuition, and the connections between body, mind, and spirit led me into massage and bodywork, Reiki, and Craniosacral Therapy. I continue to keep my credentials active in these areas, but these days I find myself increasingly drawn toward making painting a larger part of my life.
I am also the author of The Life-Changing Power of Group Psychometry, which grew from a meditation and psychometry group I began in my home.
And then I started having fun with acrylic.
I came to painting later in life, almost as though another door had opened.
I don’t begin with a finished image in mind. I begin with color, movement, a feeling, a gesture—and then I pay attention. Layers build. Colors surprise me. Something sometimes appears that I couldn’t have planned, and the painting begins to tell me where it wants to go.
That process feels familiar.
My abstract paintings are another way of exploring the questions that have followed me throughout my life: What is beneath what we see? What might emerge if we stop trying to control the outcome? What becomes possible when we trust what we sense, even before we can explain it?
I don’t experience my work as an artist, writer, teacher, and energy therapist as separate paths. They are different expressions of the same curiosity.
Each asks me to pay attention.
Each invites discovery.
And each reminds me that there is almost always more beneath the surface than we first imagine.
I hope my paintings offer that same invitation—to pause, to look again, and perhaps to discover something unexpected of your own.
Seeing beyond the surface has been a thread through my life. Painting simply gave me another way to follow it.