"Everything carries its own energy. When you bring an object into your home, its energy comes with it. It's with this understanding that I bring ceremony and ritual to the creation of every painting, knowing that its energy will become part of whatever space it lands in."
The Ritual
I never simply sit down and paint. Every session begins the same way - with intention, with clearing, and with ceremony.
I start in meditation, ceremonial cacao in hand, and crystals placed around my workspace. I clear the room and my supplies with palo santo, removing any stagnant energy so that what flows through me and onto the page is as clean and open as possible. I call in reiki energy to move through my hands and into my work. Only once the space is clear, my body is grounded, and my mind has quieted do I pick up a brush.
This is not a quick process and it’s not optional for me. It’s the foundation of everything I create.
The Word
Every canvas piece begins with a single word chosen in meditation, painted over and over in layers of color to create the foundation of the piece. This underlayer becomes almost graffiti-like in its texture, with the word woven through it repeatedly in multiple colors. As the painting builds, traces of that underlayer show through in places - the word, and the intention behind it, present in the final work even when it can't be fully seen.
As I paint that word into the foundation of the piece, I feel into how I want this painting to feel when it is hanging in someone's home. What energy do I want it to carry? What do I want the person who lives with it to feel?
That word and that intention become the energetic DNA of the painting. They live in the piece long after the final layer of paint has dried.
The Energy
Everything is energy. Every object carries the energy of how it was made, who made it, and what was present in the space where it was created.
When you bring one of my paintings into your home, you’re bringing in a piece that was made from joy - deep, genuine, unhurried joy. You’re bringing in the energy of ceremony, of intention, of a woman who was fully present and fully alive in the making of it. That energy does not disappear when the painting leaves my studio. It travels with the work and becomes part of the space it lands in.
I don't take lightly the fact that someone would choose to live with something I created. My paintings are made with that reverence.
