PRACTICE & LINEAGE

I hold an MFA in Visual Arts from Vermont College of Fine Arts and have worked for over twenty years as a visual artist, educator, and expressive arts facilitator. My teaching integrates contemporary art practice with contemplative inquiry, approaching creativity as an embodied research—one that cultivates perception, presence, and relational awareness rather than focusing solely on technical skill.

For more than thirty years, I have studied contemplative traditions including Tantra, Vajrayana, and Zen Buddhism, alongside depth-oriented psychological practices such as Gestalt, family constellations, body–mind psychotherapy, and Jungian psychology. I have learned from teachers including Carlos de León, Tarchin Rinpoche, Namkai Norbu, Lopon Tenzin Namdak, and the tantric artist Harish Johari, whose guidance in yantra drawing and meditative painting deeply influenced my understanding of image-making as a disciplined form of attention.

This foundation informs an approach to teaching and facilitation that integrates process-based art-making, meditation, and embodied awareness. Participants engage material, image, body, and movement as interconnected dimensions of experience, using creative practice as a pathway for self-inquiry, integration, and transformation.

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