Welcome!
I’m a Bellingham-based artist who loves creating handmade ceramics, textiles, and paintings that celebrate color, texture, and creativity. Whether you're looking for something special for your home or want to explore your own creative side, I’m glad you’re here!
Through fiber art, ceramics, painting, and creative workshops, my work is a celebration of connection, mindfulness, and the beauty of the natural world. Each piece and gathering invites you to pause, create, and find meaning in the art of everyday life.
About Me
I am a teacher, mother, homemaker, artist, and adventurer living in Bellingham, Washington. I have lived all over Washington also in Oregon and Colorado. I have loved nature, forests, oceans, mountains, and animals as long as I can remember. My work brings the awe and beauty of nature to everyday moments. The details in my work inspire mindfulness, wonder, curiosity, and whimsy.
There is great joy in my work, but I also want to inspire thoughtfulness about the environment and protecting the ecosystems that nurture our existence. My work celebrates homemaking by creating creative functional pieces and art works for the home. I celebrate the work and the arts of generations of women, the sewing, the cooking, the cleaning and beautifying of the home.
As a teacher or facilitator of workshops I believe there is great value in therapeutic quality of doing art. Working with one’s hands is therapeutic, finding a quiet mind while doodling or sticking, processing emotion through a creative act are all good for the soul.
Creative Workshops for Inspired Makers
My workshops and retreats focus on skill building, skill sharing, relaxation, and process. I offer small group gatherings over a shared interest with a focus on connecting through learning. There is no expectation to be good or skilled - but to allow ourselves to play, create without expectation, and allow ourselves to be amateur. I nurture my guests with delicious meals and long conversations around the table. I give my guests the gift of time to explore, reflect, learn, create and find ways to nurture themselves and their communities in daily life. Our lives are so busy - giving ourselves the gift of time to be mindful, to create, to breathe, to rest, to connect, to be nourished, to explore, reflect, think - is the greatest gift we can give ourselves. Some retreats are more focused on therapeutic art others on skill building, but they have in common building community around a shared creative interest.
