Intentional art to transform your inner and outer worlds.
CREATE SACRED SPACE
WHAT IS INTENTIONAL ART?
My practice operates under the philosophy that beyond the material, our objects and environments inform our experience on a psychological, emotional, and spiritual level. The ancients understood this, which is why practices like feng shui, still exist today. In fact, you’ll find that the cosmology of most cultures, include talismanic objects, as well as beliefs around how to arrange, relate to, and design space. The more scientifically minded describe this as neuroaesthetics, and how the perception of art, beauty, and our environment a ects our neural systems and can evoke intense and transformative emotional response.
We’ve all experienced a form of this, for instance - we’ve all entered spaces where we feel immediately at ease, or conversely, immediately unsettled. My belief, is that those visceral responses are due to all spaces and things holding their own unique energy, based on who made them, how they were made, what they are made of, their history, etc., all which we are constantly relating to on both a conscious and subconscious level.
And so, if our art and space hold so much power over us, why not engage and create our world in a conscious and co-creative way. One that supports us, our greatest desires, and our highest purpose.
My Spiritual Practice and Art Practice walk hand in hand. I believe in remembering. That tapping into the old ways is the way of the future. Ancient and Modern. That walking in a sacred way isn’t about being “good” it’s about being whole - human. To support this ethos, the work I make is to be lived with, in relationship to, touchable, a sensual exchange. My practice in all its forms is built on bridges, art to spiritual practice, spiritual practice to life, communion to oneness, stillness to movement, and round and round.
In life and art I love: repetition and improv, structure and fluidity, openness and mystery, reserve and passion. I believe that art - and everything - has an energy all its own. And that art affects the psyche of those who are in relationship with it. The impact of which deepens over time in the constant interplay between planes of existence. And so, with that in mind, how might we enter into this relationship with greater intention? Exploring the idea that the creative force in our surroundings can influence what is integrated into our lives.
Ultimately my process is always co-creative partnership: between myself, Material, Spirit, and the viewer. I enter into this process through deep listening, curiosity, intuition, meditation, leading, and following. Guided by the desire to receive, translate, distill, and alchemize, to facilitate transformation.
The use of repetitive dashes in my work serves as a point of focused intent. Gestural marks, and washes allow me to access the unconscious. If precision is Spirit, then the free form is Soul. Hands, paint, color, space, texture bring us back to Earth all unfolding in pure presence. Noise cleared away except for the essential meeting of brush and canvas; of intangible and tangible.
Folding the sacred back into its rightful place, the here and now. Playing in the ever-morphing space where I, we, and all are simultaneously creator and created.