art jewelry. ivory free scrimshaw. poetry. performance. painting.
I studied visual art, dance and somatics at Hampshire College. My work was primarily representational landscape/architecture/interiors until 1999; working to ground and locate myself in my environment and finding plein air painting an acceptable, albeit roundabout, means of gaining permission to connect to the land. Attending massage school, a leap towards embodiment and dramatic change of landscape, I shifted focus to figure and began a series of self portraits inspired by the alphabet which became "In My Own Language". From 2015 to 2019 I trained in somatic based expressive arts at Tamalpa Institute, Kentfield, California, and completed the project, while continuing to navigate a highly uncertain breast cancer prognosis. Returning east post Covid 2021, I am leaning into performance and continuing work on "Finding The Ocean" a 365 found object jewelry journal. I offer expressive arts therapy, somatic therapy and education to individuals and groups.
I studied visual art, dance and somatics at Hampshire College. My work was primarily representational landscape/architecture/interiors until 1999; working to ground and locate myself in my environment and finding plein air painting an acceptable, albeit roundabout, means of gaining permission to connect to the land. Attending massage school, a leap towards embodiment and dramatic change of landscape, I shifted focus to figure and began a series of self portraits inspired by the alphabet which became "In My Own Language". From 2015 to 2019 I trained in somatic based expressive arts at Tamalpa Institute, Kentfield, California, and completed the project, while continuing to navigate a highly uncertain breast cancer prognosis. Returning east post Covid 2021, I am leaning into performance and continuing work on "Finding The Ocean" a 365 found object jewelry journal. I offer expressive arts therapy, somatic therapy and education to individuals and groups.
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