Let’s Love Color Again! And they did! For six weeks sixteen women immersed themselves deeply into each color and explored the many, many gifts of color including healing and energy. See a few of the mandalas here. As one student once said, “These are amazing and they all swim together!”    Read More

                                              WE TAUGHT KIDS MANDALAS We asked them, what does your “inner sun” (or the light within yourself) look like, and this is what they did. My husband and I teamed up at...Read More

In this 6-week class we explored creating mandalas of the love, energy and guidance from our spirit guides or the “angels” among us—human, animal or divine—those who have helped us on our journey, or, who we have helped. We painted mandalas of the help which surrounds us, the everyday “angels” who are close to us,...Read More

These are few of the mandalas from my book Awakened By The Flowers: Channeled Messages and Watercolor Mandalas. They are being exhibited now at the Community Center in Capitola, California, so if you are unable to go to the exhibit, you can see them here, each with an excerpt from the book. The basic message...Read More

In this 6-week class our intention was to explore the step-by-step growth and blossoming of a lotus flower, as symbolic of the Self. In each class we would try a new sacred geometry design. On day- one we would make a mandala representing one, or the beginning, the point of energy where all begins. The...Read More

  Circles abound in my life. Maybe it’s just because I notice them, now that I paint mandalas, teach mandalas and generally my whole existence is about the Circle. On the left is a potholder my grandmother made for me out of scraps of yarn. She was always busy making something, and all of us...Read More

It wasn’t until my diagnosis of breast cancer that Mary really took a hold of me and I began to paint the images of the Divine Mother which appeared in my mind’s eye. You have to understand how odd her appearances were at first, because in my religious background Mary did not play a significant...Read More

Revisiting the Self Through Photos: In a recent mandala class, we all revisited our ideas of ourselves by including old photos in our mandalas. We started with a photo of ourselves as a child and we all included the photo in a mandala. To the left is me at three, blooming out of a flower....Read More

The Final Project: At the end of our last mandala class for the spring, The Delight of Watercolor Mandalas, some of the class met at the beach to create a beach mandala. We all brought flowers, leaves and natural objects to create an impermanent mandala which would be washed away by the tide. The Flower...Read More

Magic and Messages Everywhere My husband and I took a recent trip to LA to see some art and said, “Let’s have a magical trip and look for magic and messages everywhere!” When we arrived we parked next to a car with a Flower of Life symbol on its back window. Several of us in...Read More