Every time I have the opportunity to leave town and take a break of some kind, there’s a detachment process from my office, studio, and practice.

I am unplugging, which feels uncomfortable at first, until suddenly it’s a wonderful relief.

I’ve been learning about how my creative practice works, and what I need to do to get out of my own way so that my paintings can happen more easily for me.

Some of this is just showing up and painting, with an emphasis on play and thinking outside of the old structure I used to think I had to work within.

Whether or not you intend for your creations to say hello, they do. Even if the person being said hello to is you, that is hello.

As a psychic and psychic teacher, I think about this often. Early on in my psychic training, I was taught that saying hello to myself and to my body is one of the most powerful ways to facilitate and create space for healing to happen.

If I am not the one creating myself, who or what is?

As an artist, I know that I am the one who has to show up to make the art I want to make.

I am planting flowers for this coming year.

Some of these will be actual flowers in my new garden. I’m also planting herbs, tomatoes, and maybe another vegetable or two, all of which come with flowers at some point in their growth cycle.

One of the best gifts I’ve given myself this autumn has been the permission to not have to produce any art at all.

It’s not about how much I put out there, share on my site or social media. I’ve decided to give myself space from that internal drive to produce more work, and that all of it has to be good.

Your very human creativity matters now more than ever before.

Nothing outside of you can replace your unique and creative human spirit.

I believe most competition is ridiculous, pointless, and needlessly programmed into all of us from Day 1.

It's always so much fun to see previously unknown women artists being 'discovered', (especially after they're dead!), after being taught in my art history classes that they never existed.

Yes, I’ve got flowers on the brain right now.

It’s summer and they’re growing everywhere, which all on its own is a miraculous gift from the earth.

A timely reminder to myself about the nature of trust, spirit, and new growth.

The rain and the sun work together to create the possibility for new growth to happen.

This is from a series of recent small scale paintings. Small in size, big in energy!

The trees in this forest are simple long narrow shapes, that from this distance resemble strange beings far more than they do trees. But no matter, this is the forest I remember.