Michelle Soden-Gilkes

My whole career and life had been within the newspaper industry culminating with a role as an Art Director for the Wall Street Journal. Then a few years ago I met my husband and he asked if I would move to Switzerland with him. My whole life changed. Finally I am able to reconnect with a part of my soul that remained buried for many years and I now write and illustrate children's books along with my greatest passion which is painting.
Since writing the above I have relocated to Germany, and had a child. How beautiful to be able to reconnect with my childhood through the eyes of my child, and also my artwork.

The most profound education I have ever received is not the traditional learning of my earlier years when I obtained a notable BTEC diploma in Art and Design, but the spiritual journey that I obtained from my Avatar course studies with Starsedge.