I’m inspired by my own vivid and colorful dreams, life experiences, surroundings and current events and I most often paint from life because I like the energy of the shared experience…I love being in a room full of artists where everyone is silently going about their work, each painting, sculpting or drawing the same subject but seeing it so differently from one another. When we take the time to really “see” a subject, we realize we are not separate and we learn to have compassion for others as well as ourselves. We connect. Art really does heal, which is reason enough to drop the scalpel and pick up the palette knife ;). So much of life as I currently know it is about learning to let go of what no longer serves and picking up what brings joy.