I create sculptures and site-specific installations that explore and rediscover the ancient and sacred relationship between the human spirit and the natural world. My artwork is inspired and sustained from the experience of beauty and truth, which I feel through intimate relating and while creating art and ritual with the natural world. An important element and often the initial stage in my creative process are conversations with trees and earth elements during excursions and adventures in nature. I use found and gathered earth materials from these excursions which inspire and initiate a meditative and sensual creative process of art making that opens into the timeless. Revealing and honing these found natural materials with a craft-based physicality and a devotion to the spirits in nature has over many years become an embodied artistic and spiritual practice, one which opens gateways and passages to new experiences and possibilities.
In my practice I meld art and design, craft and technique, aesthetic and gesture and use it as a structure and canvas in which I explore the border between form and formless. My emphasis on creating and revealing beauty, and the quality of the form and gesture is intended as an opening and gateway between other realms and the formless. Collaborations and teachings have become another strong orientation in my work, as well as working in local environments and communities to foster and encourage communal and collective artwork. Honoring, restoring and protecting Planet Earth and our natural environment is  a central theme in my artistic practice. Having worked with and through catastrophe, destruction and loss, particularly in the Valley Fire of 2015 in northern California, and the resulting and painful loss of trees and nature has given my work greater depth and understanding for the need to become aware and responsible towards nature and our planet.
As an artist I am interested in an ongoing conversation and creative collaboration with the natural world made visible and expressed in visual art, ritual and performance. With my art I desire to share and invoke a sense of intimacy and belonging to nature, and to contribute to a sacred ecology and a shared vision of a new world that is emerging.

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• Art: Sculpture & Photography

• Site-specific art installations

• Art-ritual Performance

• Art classes on natural wood sculpture

• Nature and art journeys, workshops and seminars

• Art Talks on the relationship of art and nature