I have no formal training but took some fiber art/fabric collage classes at the Evanston Art Center in the early 2000s.   I came to discover that being an artist is a way of looking at the world and interpreting it.  With disciplined practice we get to reveal our deeper understanding using art as a point of entry.

I started working in charcoal in my early 20s when I was directionless and found words insufficient to understand myself.  I also created paper collage and made mandalas at this time. I hid my work by collaging the inside of my closet doors.  The  process of art making  is a spiritual practice for me. The completed work is secondary.  Sometimes it resonates with the viewer and that is a wonderful intersection.  However I do not sanction anything that emerges. I have work that sat not understood, waiting for my consciousness to catch up with it.

My Psychology degree is from South Africa and my Masters degree in Education is from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel.  I have read extensively and continue to be intrigued with the different levels of consciousness and archetypes and  how these manifest in visual form and in our lives. I am intrigued with cathexis to images, people and ideas.

They provide hint to things below the  tip of our psychic iceberg. I am  influenced by Carl Jung and the Surrealists.  I have worked with my dreams extensively in my adult life. Their complexity and wisdom have amazed me. As a career counselor I have used art with clients to bypass the rational mind and language to help them find a more transcendent part of themselves.

I create both paper and fabric collage.  Some fabric pieces include photographs that I have taken during my extensive world travels, locally and of my daughter.  As a yoga practitioner and teacher I also believe that the body is a source of wisdom that disrupts lies we tell ourselves.

As a result, my process is intuitive.  I select materials and images and then allow them to speak both to me and each other. Judgement is not valuable.  There are no mistakes;  just detours on the way to a deeper understanding