Artist Statement
My art is about prayer, meditation and playfulness made visible. Creativity represents my connection with my creator, to Spirit, to Source, and all the other names for God. My desire is to infuse the Creative Spirit into all of my life, to pray without ceasing.
Although the media and products are important, the process of using materials to make manifest the Inner Life, below the words, is primary. Words are not my first language. My heart’s desire is to listen to God, Self and Others in that deep place, rooted in Spirit and Authenticity, then to dance and play in that land from where the poems, paintings, dances and music come.
My heart’s desire is to live creativity and infuse it into every part of my life. I live arts as basic to my spirituality. I drum, I dance, I paint, I write non-fiction books, I bead, I teach, I write poetry – all as prayer; the creative response is there as I ride my bike or write psychological evaluations. I am blessed and I am grateful.
Paintings and Spiritual Growth
I have noticed that in many of my paintings two themes often appear. The first is a spiral. I associate that spiral with two things. One is the labyrinth that represents a deep spirituality. The second association came when I attended a presentation by Brian Swimme, the cosmologist. It seems that deep in the universe these spiral formations appear. I was surprised and pleased when I saw his pictures of deep space as they looked like my paste paintings. That presentation made me feel that my art is connected to something much bigger than myself. A second theme that often appears in my art is a simple image of something growing. Putting those two themes together, the art appears to be about deep spiritual growth.
