About Me

I have spent my entire professional career exploring creative self-expression, first as an artist and art educator and now as a creativity coach. I majored in art education at Antioch College in the late 1960s, and did graduate work in painting at Pratt Institute in New York City. From 1981 through 2003, I taught art at a private elementary school in Rockville, MD. Over the years, I continued to make my own art, first in San Francisco, then Cape Cod and the coast of Maine and now in my studio in Takoma Park, MD.

In 1997, I decided I wanted to expand my exploration of creativity by working with adults, something I had been inching towards by conducting weekend workshops with another artist. I was interested in finding out more about the source of our creativity, how to access it and how to make it part of our everday lives. I completed a Master of Arts Program at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto, CA, in 1999 with a dissertation on creativity. This became the basis for my Art for the Heart workshops, studio groups and individual sessions.

Since then, I've devoted more and more of my time to working with adults, committing full-time to creativity coaching and my own art practice when I left teaching in June 2003. I love the work, and the people I meet through it. As an art teacher I observed and nurtured the pure creativity that only children posess, and, sadly, watched it recede as the pressure to conform to the norms of society overpowered it, usually around age 11 or 12. Now, I have the exquisite opportunity and honor to help adults recover that buried creative energy - the truest, most powerful aspect of their personality.