My interest in dreams began several years ago with my own experience, when night after night I was haunted by the same dreams. I had many different flying dreams which would always end with my being forced down, usually by people catching me, or by storms or even gravity's pull. In the dreams I felt that my very life depended on being able to sustain flight.

I did a series of sketches on this theme, caught up in this mystery constantly saying to myself, "I know this means something!" This led to reading about dreams and eventually finding the dream community.

Now, I have come to realize that these dreams came to me as a warning that a lack of opportunity for creative expression was killing me! I had a creative spirit that needed to be set free! This was the beginning of my seeking a professional career in commercial art which I also eventually found to be unfulfilling. There after, I left my graphic design business and focused completely on painting my dreams. 

To me dreams provide an unending source of inspiration and a way to come to know myself very deeply. Painting dreams has become for me an intense form of dreamwork and as Jeremy Taylor calls it a "prayer practice," because unraveling the mysteries contained within my soul feels very spiritual to me.

Now my work is expanding to include painting the dreams of others, which you could say is an artist's form of projective dream work. In particular, I have started to build a body of work called Amazing Women's Dreams, which, when completed (target date 2008) will be the basis for an art exhibit. These dream paintings will be a contemplation of questions like: What do amazing women have in common? What are their dream experiences like? What muses guide them? Have any of their dreams influenced a major life change or redirection? What demons have they confronted?

This project will be a glimpse into these women's psyches, which will not only be fascinating, but will give the Feminine Hero a voice and encourage others among us to take our dreams more seriously.

My first painting in this body of work was from Kathleen Sullivan. called "Surrender to the White Buffalo." This powerful dream was perceived to be an initiation dream and the beginning of Kathleen's spiritual work. Soon after the dream, Kathleen was given a weekly radio talk show, and since then her dream work continues to expand.

Joan Borysenko, Ph.D. has given me her powerful and transformative dream to paint, "Meeting the Inner Saboteur", which was just completed in April 2005, and was exhibited in June of -05 at the International Association for the Study ofDreams (IASD) annual conference' dream art show, in Berkeley CA. The dream allows a look at those darker regions of the soul where the Inner Saboteur resides in each of us.

My newest project is a dream called "The Branching Woman", given to me by Patricia Garfield. This is a beautiful dream about a woman with branches growing out of her head told in her best selling book "Creative Dreaming" (p. 227), and it marked a period of great career growth for Patricia. This painting should be completed by the end of 2005.

Meanwhile, I am in the process of contacting more women who shine in all genres, from creative fields to health professions and the sciences. I am beginning with women who, like myself, believe in the power of the dream, and other women whose careers focus on women's health and wholeness.

As an artist and dreamer, I wish to convey the positive message that dreams have the power to guide, heal and transform us. This is the source of my inspiration and the magic in the visual images I continue to create.