Thank you for the opportunity to share my art with you. Creating art started as a way to express the feelings I had no words for. The brush and palette became my voice and the stretched canvas my skin. Each painting has been a road map charting my journey through this life, from darkness into light. Creating art has been my lifelong healer.

When my mother died I started to carve wood in an attempt to deal with my grief and loss, and to help me connect to my mother’s spirit. I have carved the mother goddess, mother and child, and my angel mother.

During the process of carving, I also began to paint wands. Painted wooden sticks that carry healing energy and light.

In July of 2000, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. The book "Breast Heaven" is my cancer story. In colors, images, and words I express what it feels like to be a disconnected head and breasts in doctors’ hands. After the devastating loss of my breasts I gave them wings so they could fly to breast heaven. When all the surgeries were done and the cancer gone, I was supposed to be okay – good as new – but I wasn’t. I was and still am forever changed. Grateful to be alive and afraid of the next oncology appointment. Everyone’s breast cancer story is a little different but the fear, the vulnerability, and the powerlessness are the same. It is my wish to share my book with other breast cancer survivors as a message of hope and courage.

About the artist...

I have been painting since 1984 and I started carving in 2003. I am self-taught.

My past shows have all been in California

James Gray Gallery - Bergamot Station  (2007)

Alex Haleigh Gallery  (2004)

The ARTbar Gallery - "The Lost Women of Juarez"  fundraiser  (2004)

Susan G. Komen - "Fashion For The Cure" event  (2004)

BGH Gallery - "Art Heals" September 11th Fund  (2001)

Lulu's Beehive  (2000)