Once Upon A Dream…
In the Land of Ardithian there lived this crazy chick that licked Play-Doh as a child. She spent hours and days under her bed dreaming up the wildest ideas and stories until one day she woke up and realized that those wild ideas and stories were part of the magic potion that made moving through the world really incredible! Life really has been wild….unpredictably beautiful, broken, and mind-blowingly outrageous! About 20 years ago I was at the top of my teaching career and my body decided it had had enough. 28 surgeries later, disability and grim prognosis options, and soul crushing moments were part of my reality back in the day.
Creativity, my family and faith, a remarkable treatment plan from my doctors and therapists, all help me live today a miracle life that I feel I don’t deserve to be honest….but gosh am I so effing grateful! Creativity and a wild imagination were always second nature, I am hard wired that way, but becoming a professional artist and global art educator, well that wasn’t on my radar. On one of my darkest days I went to the library and checked out some books on watercolor and the Splash volumes caught my eyes and heart. I call it a divine moment, because that book really was the trigger that sent my world in a completely new path of creativity, good medicine, and an insane devotion to self-study and love of color.
All this to say, tapping in creatively and learning to problem solve were life giving and life changing for me. Today, I run an amazingly successful corporation and professional painting practice. I have collectors world wide, a crazy wonderful following of artists seeking to discover their versions of beautifully different and interesting, and I travel internationally teaching the recipe for moving through the world creatively tapped in. There is no greater honor for me than to impact the human heart of others in ways that inspire them to push past ordinary and reconnect with their passions and artistic gifts. I LOVE to paint, and to write wild words, and pair the two…..then teach others how to do the same. What’s YOUR version of creative magic?
If you aren’t sure….spend some time in The Land of Ardithian and I betcha you might find out!
Out of over 8 billion people in the world there is only 1 of you and one of me. Let that sink in. To the media and voices in our heads that say we don’t matter, we are not enough, there is no original idea under the sun….I call B.S!
Every single one of us has a lifetime of unique experiences and if we learn how to tap into those memories, observations, and pair them with our imaginations, we are capable of incredible uniqueness when it comes to expression.
I am passionate about doing 3 things…..
I help beautiful humans learn to move through the world creatively tapped in…..
I help painters and writers discover their versions of beautifully different and interesting….
and I create wall experiences for beautiful humans who love collecting artwork that pairs story, complexity, and color, with a side of deliciously different.
Push Past Ordinary and come work with me!
