Eight of Pentacles Collage

My earliest deep fascination was with the Renaissance and Early Netherlandish painters, and my first love was oil painting. Since then I have followed my nose, exploring myriad media: drawing, digital/text and mixed media, and three dimensional making. Most recently, I have created figural sculptures using my own methods, in an engagement with powerful mythical figures: Garuda, Saraswati, Naga Khanya. I am a mythologist as well as an artist, with a Ph.D. in Mythological Studies. My work is a spiritual practice and partakes in a relationship with energy that comes from my shamanic and Tao studies and practices. Art, like every sentient and even 'non-sentient' being in the cosmos, carries its own life. We, as makers, are privileged to help this life come into being.