About the Artist

Magic and craft are the two permanent wings of art. ~Pablo Neruda

The primary influences in my work as an artist come from the western European tradition of art, from the teachings and practice of Tibetan Buddhism and Asian philosophy in general, and from the boundless well of global artisitic expression. The European tradition gives me the discipline, the yoga of perception and gesture in drawing and painting. The Buddhist teachings offer a path to work with mind, vision and perception: change the mind and the world changes shape. The artistic traditions of the world are an ancestral continuum, a cauldron, inspiring and nourishing.

All my life I have been learning to see, to open octaves of vision. I gaze into the radiant heart of phenomena, hearkening to the pulse of dark and light, stasis and change, becoming and dissolving, sensing the beat that becomes a pattern, the pattern that becomes a form, the form that becomes an image. I seek the shimmering pathway between perceiving and sensing, between phenomena and noumena, between iconic and narrative. I venture into the unborn world, holding a thread of longing to guide my path, winding it into images as I go. I am calling to the invisible world to reveal itself, to tell its stories, to unfold the wisdom and luminosity encoded in its heart.

VITA PUBLISHED ARTWORK (Selected)

• Pomegranate Publications
• The Sun Magazine
• The Shambhala Sun
• Writer/illustrator of The Girl Who Changed Her Fate, Atheneum 1991
• Illustrations for Wizard of Wind and Rock, Pamela Service autho,r Atheneum 1989
• Illustrations for Fire and Stone, Ursula LeGuin autho, Atheneum 1988
• Illustrations for Lissa and the Moon's Sheep, Eli Goldblatt author, Harbinger House 1991

• Naropa University, Boulder Colorado
  Courses in Drawing and in World Art , an introduction to art of the world from a global perspective.
• Private classes and courses

• Josefa Sudka Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2007
• Indigo's Art Gallery , Denver Colorado
• Boulder Public Library
• Naropa Gallery, Boulder, Colorado
• Maclaren Markowitz, Boulder, Colorado
• Highland Gallery of Art, Boulder, Colorado
• Alpha Gallery, Denver, Colorado

• 20 years as a programmer on KGNU Boulder
  Programming and hosting world music, eclectic music and humanities.

EDUCATION

• University of Colorado at Denver
• University Without Walls, Loretto Heights College, Denver
• L'Academia di Bell'Arte, Florence, Italy
• Studio Simi, Florence, Italy
• Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland