spirals, circles, symbols, trees

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in my heart, i've always been an artist.

i have been drawing, painting and sculpting since childhood.  to escape a dark and tumultuous home-life, i took refuge along the shores of Lake Ontario, my childhood home, where i cultivated intimate relationship with trees and nature.  a five mile hike along the shores for clay to bring home to sculpt small animals, sun dry, then sell for loose change door-to-door to kind neighbors at a nearby retirement community.  those memories are some of the happiest in my mind.  co-creating with earth and enjoying the wisdom of elders.

although my home life lacked tenderness, i was fortunate to have been blessed with amazing teachers.  teachers who showed me glimpses into other worlds, other realities...the vast capacity of knowing - the Quest.  

i'm drawn to symbols, colors, spiritual archetypes and mysticism; labyrinths, mandalas, the enneagram, yantra, orbs, spiritual and religious studies.  i best describe my art as visionary symbolism.

i dont usually plan my paintings, unless im working with a precise symbol - and then its freeform movement coupled with song and meditation that emerges into what i call my art.  textures and colors that move through and around me help me create emotional pieces that help me carry my feelings.  colors that remind me of moods ago.  

i was ordained as minister with the Madonna Ministry in 2014, am a Reiki Master Teacher, Nia Brown Belt, reflexologist, animal communicator and i received a masters degree in wisdom spirituality with indigenous mind concentration, June 2013 from wisdom university.