About Me

I am an artist and facilitator devoted to creativity as a path of presence and wholeness. My work is rooted in Intuition Painting®, expressive arts, and years of personal and facilitation-based practice using creativity as a way to explore, reflect on, and make meaning from lived experience.

Before founding Soul Journey Arts, I spent over 40 years in higher education and business, most recently in senior leadership roles guiding operations and budgets. Even then, the part of my work I valued most was mentoring, facilitating, and supporting people through periods of transition and change.

During a time of personal recalibration, I returned to creative practices such as meditation, journaling, and intuitive painting. What began as a personal exploration gradually became a central creative practice and eventually led me to become a certified Intuition Painting® facilitator.

I continue to deepen my understanding of creative practice through ongoing study, including completing a Trauma, Grief & Renewal Certificate through the New Earth Institute at Southwestern College. I approach my work with care, attentiveness, and respect for individual pace and choice.

There is no pressure here to perform, fix, or push past your edges.

Soul Journey Arts is for you if you’re:

• Tired of pushing and holding it all together

• Curious about creativity as a form of inner listening

• Longing to feel more at home in your body and your life

• Standing at a threshold and seeking a gentler way forward

You don’t need to be an artist.
You only need to be willing to show up.

This work isn’t about fixing what’s broken.
It’s about engaging creatively with what’s already here.

Welcome.

At Soul Journey Arts, my work is guided by four living principles: Creativity, Compassion, Connection, and Coherence — what I call the the 4 C’s: A Living Creative Framework.

I’m drawn to creative practices that invite awareness beyond thinking alone — practices rooted in attention, presence, and the willingness to stay with what is real as it unfolds. In my experience, much of what shapes us lives beneath the surface of words, in sensation, image, memory, and story.

My work is about creating spaces where there is no fixing, no performing, and no bypassing — only listening, presence, and honest meeting through creative expression.

To read it in full go to this link: The 4 C’s: A Living Creative Framework

Awaken in the Deep — The Mermaid Soul Journey is a poetic invocation and a gentle call back to ourselves. Using the ocean and the mermaid as symbols of the inner world, this piece invites us to move beneath the surface of life and listen more deeply within.

This song and video come directly from my creative practice, rooted in intuitive art and the belief that creativity is a way we listen, heal, and remember who we are. It honors the courage to feel and to return home to ourselves.

If you’d like to read more about why I paint mermaids and how water and creativity have shaped my own healing, you can read the full story here:
Ocean Therapy: Learning to Move with the Tides

My whole YouTube playlist:

These songs are born from my poems, paintings, and inner journeys — and from the stories of others that live in my heart. I’m drawn to the stories of people’s lives: woven from loss and resilience, remembering and becoming, embodiment and presence.

They are part of my creative practice — poems, prayers, and story-based reflections set to music. I offer them as companions for reflection, journaling, painting, walking, or simply sitting with what feels true in the moment. For rest. For listening. For remembering.

These songs are created in collaboration with AI as part of my ongoing creative exploration.