Welcome to my Art Classroom. My work is my play and Passion. I work and play with colors.

A mandala, which means sacred circle, is a container for expressing simple yet profound images that come from within. Mandalas are used in many spiritual traditions as meditation and healing tools. The round shape of Cathedral stained glass windows, sand paintings by Buddhist Monks and Medicine Wheel healing circles of Native Americans are all examples. Mandalas are also seen in the shapes of nature. Flowers, seeds, shells, individual cells and spinning galaxies all have this round contained shape.

Creating simple and easy to make mandalas allows a person to open to deep creativity. The marks and images made with paints and other art materials come from inner imagination and reflect a personal intuitive guidance from colors, shapes and images. Balancing this artistic right brain creativity is left brain journal writing. Journals are personal word expressions that can be private or shared. These words help give guidance and clarity. The images of our mandalas and journal words are often combined into art journal pages. These art journaling pages are an expression of who we truly are and a deepening of connection to Source.