I take prints of trees and native flora using graphite and trace paper, incorporating them as collage, screen print and stitched pattern into my painted works. This meditative act of connecting to the earth through the felt sense and with sound vibrations (using my own voice), offers creates moments of stillness. Where I can experience the space between thinking and doing. Where I can feel present. Where I can feel the interconnectedness and oneness with the earth, hear the ancient whispers of the native flora and reflect on this conversation of beauty and healing.

Her work has been shown at the Seattle Art Museum Gallery, Featherston Gallery and Cooper Union Gallery, NY. She currently lives and works in Seattle, WA.

CURRENT WORK
2023    Mandala Mirrors (Current Body of work in progress)
2023    1200 Year Old Redwood (Current Body of Work in progress), Eureka, CA

WORKSHOPS
2018 – 2020  ART OF AWARENESS
Helping students find a connection to self expression through sound and mark making. A meditative process introduces a way of letting go of our 'horizontal' connections (to each other/ technology/ the over-active mind) in order to find our unique expressive voice, unlocked by a 'vertical' to Earth and Ethers. Clients: Seattle Arts Academy

PAST SELECTED SHOWS
2013     Chase Gallery, Juried by San Francisco Arts Commission, Spokane, WA
2012     Introductions, Seattle Art Museum Gallery, Seattle, WA
2011     Elemental Threads (solo show), Fetherston Gallery, Seattle, WA
2010    Under Pressure, Tashiro Kaplan Gallery, Seattle, WA
2009    Fit to Print, Allied Arts, Yakima, WA
2008    Formerly From, Allied Arts, Yakima, WA
2006    Summer Residency Show, Cooper Union, New York, NY

PROFESSIONAL STUDY/ CERTIFICATIONS
2015–2021  GINA SALA Sound Circle, Seattle, WA
Teacher, and mentor, Gina Sala. 500 practice hours with group/teacher + personal daily practice. Sound work — mantra, chant, Sanskrit study. Sound as a path to healing in the body, as dream self and as vibration.

2014–2020  ENERGY AWARENESS, Seattle, WA
600 hrs in person training and group work in perceiving fields of energy, increasing awareness and healing of unconscious energy patterns, interpersonal energy and healthy presence; practical knowledge in energetic systems of the body: chakras, core being, dream self.

2015–2016  REIKI I, II and III Certification & Attunement
Reiki teacher Mitra Politi— Spiritual Director for Rhythmia Life Enhancement Center in Costa Rica, certified acupuncturist, intuitive healer and practitioner of indigenous Colombian healing under the guidance of Taita Juanito Chindoy Chindoy.

2011 - 2016  ARTS CORPS, Seattle, WA
Volunteer brand consulting for yearly fundraising event.
 
PUBLICATIONS
Luxe Magazine, 2015, Where Rivers Merge
Sunset Magazine, 2014, Work, Live, Play