My art is influenced by Japanese and Native American art and culture, and comes from my own spiritual core. My favorite elements for collage are text in different languages, fragments from sacred works of art, Japanese origami and handmade papers, leaves, and bark. I also create my own marbled and handmade papers. Working with these small fragments of paper – with color, pattern, texture, words and intricate scenes - I create larger images that embody the richness of each element. For me, these collages reflect my personal theology that all things are connected; everything is a reflection of Spirit.
Member, Spiritual Directors International
Member, Creativity Coaches Association
Member, SoulCollage® Facilitators Circle
Member, Western Washington Labyrinth Network
Student Member, International Expressive Arts Therapy Association
Alternative Student Member, National Drama Therapy Association
Masters Student, Antioch University, Drama Therapy and Mental Health Counseling
Habitude Gallery; Fremont, Seattle, WA [April 2002]
Habitude Gallery; Ballard, Seattle, WA [February - March 2002]
Group Exhibitions
Saint Andrew's Artists Exhibit, Saint Andrews Episcopal Church, Seattle, Washington [Summer 2007]
Saint Mark's Artists Exhibit, Saint Mark's Cathedral, Seattle, Washington [Spring 2006]
Lawyerpalooza, Premier Club, Seattle, Washington [May 2005]
Shoreline Community Arts Center, Shoreline, Washington [March -May 2005]
The 6th Bakers Dozen International Collage Exhibit, Subtaranian Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand [April 2004]
"Sacred Visions, Voices of the Soul", Antioch College, Seattle, Washington [January-February 2004]
“The Beat”, Mary Lou Zeek Gallery, Salem, Oregon [January 2004]
National Collage Society Inc., 5th Annual Postcard Exhibition, Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, New York, NY [June 2002]
The 3rd Bakers Dozen International Collage Exhibit, Subtaranian Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand [2001]
National Collage Society Inc., 4th Annual Postcard Exhibition, Stocker Center Gallery, Lorain County Community College, Elyria, Ohio [June 2001]
Fish Painting performance piece with Jackie Apple, Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, California [1993]
Auctions
Medusa Speaks of the Sea, auctioned at Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Team in Training Silent Auction [2003]
House of Dreams, auctioned at Forum for Women Entrepreneurs’ Northwest Annual Entrepreneurial Awards Dinner [2003]
Community, auctioned at CASA Fundraiser [2002]
how much fun it is to fly a kite, auctioned at International Fort Worden Kite Makers Conference [2001]
Collections
Western Views I, International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction, Cuernavaca, Mexico
Western Views II, ArtColle, the museum and gallery of collage, Sergines, France
Northwest Views I, International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction, Cuernavaca, Mexico
Town Hall, Marten Law Group PLLC Rotating Collection
Publications
Giving Tree in Christine Paintner's Illuminating Mystery: Creativity as Spiritual Practice (2009)
Giving Tree in Spiritual Director's International publication, Presence magazine (2007)
Sacred Earth in Altered Art: Techniques for Creating Altered Books, Boxes, Cards & More by Terry Taylor, Lark Publishing [October 2004]
Elegy for Dennis O’Toole, published in “The Artist’s Ancestor Deck Part II”, Legacy Magazine [March 2003]
Spirit of the Ocean, published in ArtErratica zine CD
The Essence from Which, in premier issue of Sprinkles zine
Arts Education
Student, Masters in Drama Therapy and Mental Health Counseling, Antioch University
CEAP, Expressive Arts Therapy Institute [Jan. - Dec. 2009]
Oil Painting with Natalie Niblack, Shoreline Community College [Spring 2009]
Drawing with Natalie Niblack, Shoreline Community College [Winter 2009]
Ceramics with Sam Scott, Shoreline Community College [Winter 2009]
Point Zero Painting, Unleashing the Creative Spirit with Michelle Cassou [2007]
Soul Sisters: Advanced Soul Collage and Soul Collage [2002, 2003]
Art Fest study with Claudine Hellmuth, Lynne Whipple, Mary Jo McGraw and Karen Michel [2002, 2003]
Fort Worden International Kitemaker’s Conferences, study with Dan Kurahashi, Mikio Toki, Zhao Ji Chen, Scott Hampton, J.R. Tolman, Randy Shannon, Anna Rubin, Charlie Sotitch, and Gary Goodenough [2001, 2002, 2003, 2004]
Drachen Foundation Workshop with Robert Trepanier [2003]
Paper Marbeling Workshop with Galen Berry [2002]
Bookbinding Workshops with Michael Jacobs [2000-2001]
Paper Making Workshop [2000]
8-Week Performance Class with Interdisciplinary Artist, Rachel Rosenthal
The work in the 8–Week Class is both improvisational and structured. We divide time between exercises, processes and improvised theatre, and pieces brought in by the participants as solos, collaboratory duets and group works, conceived outside of class and performed for feedback and development. Students are taught techniques for composing pieces, and are expected to take turns performing, as well as making sets, designing lights, and providing vocal or musical complement to the theatrical event. Voice, text, and language are explored, as well as various styles of performance, both traditional and post-modern. Students use the class to try out ideas and concepts that are shown in a public performance at ESPACE DBD at the end of the 8–Week cycle. (1995)
DbD (Doing by Doing) Performance Art Workshop with Rachel Rosenthal
Description of topics covered: "Doing by Doing" is the underlying philosophy of the workshop, providing participants with a thorough hands-on experience covering all aspects of theatrical performance (body, voice, sound, music, movement, lights, sets and costumes), approached through exercises, processes and improvisations of solos, duets and group work. What is played out in the workshop is the eternal dance between the "I" and the "Other", the negotiations of power, the intermingling of passive and active, the focusing and diffusion of attention, the dialogue between "who I am" and, as Rachel puts it, the "givens" of existence. (1994, 1995)
Performance Art Workshop with visual, performance and media artist Jacki Apple (1994)
Training
SoulCollage Facilitator Training with Seena B. Frost
Veriditas Labyrinth Facilitator Training with the Rev. Lauren Artress, Grace Cathedral
Creativity Coaching Training with Eric Maisel, author of Fearless Creating
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