A New Direction: Returning to the Joy of Making

For more than fifteen years, my creative journey has taken a few unexpected — and wonderful — turns. What began as a simple love of designing shower curtains slowly grew into an exploration of surface pattern design, where I spent several years developing repeating motifs and digital collections. Creativity has always been a constant thread, even as the medium changed.

During lockdown, something else began to bloom: my writing life. Words took center stage, and I devoted much of my creative energy there. It was a season of growth, discovery, and momentum — one I’m deeply grateful for.

But creativity has a way of calling us back to the things we can feel with our hands.

Over time, the rapid rise of AI-generated imagery began to shift my perspective. I am not anti-AI because I genuinely appreciate what those tools can do. But in the visual art space, their speed and abundance quietly changed my relationship with making. When images can be produced instantly and endlessly, something essential can feel lost – and artists can lose the joy of creating when fifty word prompts produce images in seconds without the struggle of getting light/shadow/color exactly right. It is that struggle that makes creating feel like a triumph, because for an artist bringing a vision to life should be a labor of love – not a prompt.

What AI cannot replicate is the tactile experience of creation — the flow of paint, the texture of a surface, the unpredictability of materials, the quiet focus of working slowly. That physical, sensory experience is where my creative heart lives.

So I’m changing direction.

This website is becoming a space dedicated to tangible art — a home for my art journals, new works on canvas, and an evolving record of experimentation. Instead of producing large volumes of digital designs, I’m choosing to slow down. To feel the materials. To explore without pressure. To create simply for the joy of making.

I will still occasionally share select designs for sale through the one print-on-demand platform that remains after thoughtfully simplifying my online presence. Everything else has either been removed or will be soon. This shift is intentional. It’s about clarity, focus, and authenticity.

My inspiration is returning to what grounds me most deeply:
nature, my garden, and the pollinators that bring it to life.

This next chapter is not about output.
It’s about presence. It’s about small moments of joy. It’s about curiosity. It’s about reconnecting with why I create at all.

Since those first humans painted the insides of caves, some of us have been called to capture the moments that remind us of the fleeting nature of being alive, human, and in nature. I am one of those.

Thank you for being here as the journey evolves.