I’ve been painting since I was seven. For most of my life I was self-taught. Nobody had to make me do it. I just never stopped. Recently I went back to school and began studying with the Milan Art Institute (2025-26), and I can feel my work growing because of it.

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I paint what I see when I get quiet. Meditation, ceremony, journeying. Then the brush in my hand. Right now I’m working in three series: Soul Mandalas, Wild Feminine, and an abstract series where I’m studying color and texture. I don’t plan them so much as follow them.

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Before painting took center stage, photography did. I picked up a camera in 2002, and by 2004 it was my full-time work. I raised my two daughters through my twenties while building that career from nothing. My images have been published all over the world: book covers, ads, magazines. I ranked in the top 100 of about 40,000 photographers on iStock, and my photos made both covers of their coffee table book. I’m proud of that. I worked hard for it.

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I’ve always been drawn to healing paths: Reiki, Buddhism, cacao, shamanic journey, sound healing. I’ve been a Reiki Master Teacher since 2011 and have taught more than 50 students. I lead shamanic journeys and cacao ceremonies, hold space for sound healing, and have read tarot for over 20 years. To me this isn’t separate from the art. It’s the same work.

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I make medicine rattles using a method I developed, and hundreds of them are out in the world now. I’ve painted murals in Utah, New Mexico, and Guatemala. I self-published two oracle decks. I make every page of Rooted in Beauty, my quarterly art and spirituality magazine. A painting, a rattle, a mural, a page of the magazine: it all comes from the same place.

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When you bring home one of my paintings, you’re supporting a life given to this work, and the work goes on living with you.

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I live in Albuquerque now, under the Sandias.

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I’m still painting. I always will be.

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