An artist-healer-scholar on a 30+ year quest pondering "How do the forces of stress and love shape

 our body-mind-spirit, relationships, and communities?" Initially delving into this inquiry as a scientist and educator, I have since transitioned into Inquiry-based creativity as a personal practice and somatic art as healer and accompaniment. I lean on inquiry-based painting, liberatory-oriented somatics & color on expansive canvases to explore questions about becoming, tending lived and inherited woundings, commune with source/divine/papatuanuku who is in all, and explore the essence of life as it is uniquely expressed in each of us. Each painting is a journey sparked by a specific inquiry, and explored through sensations and emotions, rhythm and discordance, feelings and stories. The forms that emerge are ancient and contemporary. Archetypes reflect the work of re-membering cosmologies of my own ancestral lineages – celtic (Irish and Scottish), pagan, norse, European (Roman and Greek), and Māori. They

 are also informed by a practice of discerning the ways that oppressive social structures and forces warp our own understanding/stories of self and relationship, organizations and community.Re-membering the nourishing stories that compose me and us. When encountering the emergent portraits and symbolism, the paintings come alive and begin to

 offer answers to inquiry. And, each painting & workshop is a complete journey culminating when my inquiry is answered, new story is ready to be claimed, reframed, archetypal information incorporated, and sometimes exquisite gifts come forth. Each painting serves as an artifact, reminder, & liberatory roadmap.