First of all, I need to define what these words mean to me-

Art - it's a process that allows you to place your own unique signal on an idea. This idea may have been done countless times before by others but not with your own slant or energy signature. So it becomes a new vibration or tone and this focus of uniqueness can be registered as a prayer. So Art becomes a prayer to the universe. Art is not just a painting or drawing it's not just a product. Art encompasses all aspects of creative processes. I truly believe the more you open yourself to view everything as art, you will surround your Self with the energies of the Universe.

Creativity - Latin word creare "to bring forth, produce, and cause to grow". I see creativity as a spiritual process that will bring something unseen into a tangible form and through this process there is a sense of adventure. To be creatively inspired there needs to be a higher connection and seeing with the minds eye the universe. However, when the focus is only on the end result ( a product) this will inevitable lead to a deflated feeling or dissatisfaction to the end result. No creative act is ever finished it just stops at interesting times.

Spirituality - is the intent of one's connection to the Whole and this can be seen as a series of relationships from the mundane everyday world into the deepest point or highest levels you wish to scale. These relationships connects you to the Source and allows you to explore your very special and unique place within it.

So, through creativity blended together with the a spiritual intent the artistic process is not just in the end, a funny visual form but is the converted energies of yourself onto what you wish to focus, so then, art heals, art teaches, art creates a chemical reaction such as revulsion or laughter.

About me.

Kandinsky stated that "color calls forth a vibration from the soul" and that "form has its own inner sound." He also said that "color possesses spiritual qualities and physical effects". This best expresses the connection I have felt between Art and Spirit. I worshipped Art. To capture what your mind sees and then place it on paper is a magical almost alchemist formula. At an early age, I remember vividly my sister taking a blank piece of paper and transforming a galloping herd of mustangs across it. I was hooked. Now being dyslexia has its advantages as you tend to read things with an artistic way. Lines created shapes and patterns but I also saw things very differently although to me it was normal. My universe of soft fluffy world with sparkling hues and glimmering glows of light so everyone looked lovely and had a soft glow. I loved my world until I was about ten years old when my teacher who was a nun, dressed in those black robes, disappeared to me when she faced the blackboard and to me she just flashed out. It was then I learned I needed glasses. My world would never be the same again. My mother still regales people at how upset and angry I was, she thought it was because I looked dorky which, yes, that was somewhat the case but also that lovely Renoir world with all the soft forms became harsh with ugly people and sharp corners, angry shapes.

When I create Art, each painting represents a token of the invisible and intangible part of our lives - a little piece of spirit, created in hopes of making these thoughts and expressions into Reality. The consolation for parting with one of these works of art is that it speaks to the right person.

I truly believe that at birth humans can see auras. We only have to watch a child at one whose eyes have focused enough to look around someone but not at them and smile or cry. Babies also see the auras around everything, plants, animals, even clouds. I believe that we tone down this ability to a point where we can resurrect this gift or transform it into a monitor that either we use as a intuitive power or gut feeling and in men I have found they use it as a natural mapping ability. This brings up how many times men never will ask for directions, its not a macho thing, its that they have the first satellite directional mapping ability way before computers and you thought the guy that found the North Pole was all a fluke!

Now I studied a lot about art and artists and always found that certain styles like the Impressionist and Surrealist intrigue me to again see the world outside the regulated way. I received Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and Art Education. For many years taught Art in schools in Columbus, Ohio and showed my paintings and drawing in some exhibitions around Ohio. I then found myself across the Atlantic ocean taking and interpreting aura photos with the first aura imaging camera that was developed in 1992 now sadly replaced with the erroneous newer version.

Although my glasses will impeded my ability to keep seeing auras but I never lost my wonderful gift as all I had to do was to take the damm things off or lose them and believe you me I did that a lot as a kid, much to the dismay of my parents. So I learned to place them slightly lower on my nose and bang my true world was back. I also trained under a very spiritual and psychic individual, who later became my mother-in-law. Carol Smith was a trail blazer in the UK besides having the first aura camera over here she also became a Reiki Master in the early nineties.

I have found that many clients that I have worked with over the many years have now found my art works a more rewarding and more personal experience to them. These pieces are touching something deeper than just a good looking painting or drawing but creates a connection to the Source.

MY CV

Education
Ohio State University 1974 - 1982
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Painting I & II & III
Drawiing I & II & III
Ceramics I & II
Print Making
Silk screening I and Intaglio I & II
Computer Art I

Exhibitions and Commissions
Hume Hall, Wirral
Lytham, St Annes
Rhyl Town Hall, Rhyl
Cedric Ford Pavilion, Newark,
Stockport Town Hall, Stockport
Lincoln Showground, Lincoln
St Georges Hall, Liverpool
The Libra Centre, Conwy
Clarendon Suite, Birmingham