
Amanda’s heart

- Sufi Heart
As I packed up all my art materials from the studio loft, I found one remaining heart on Amanda’s chair. She commented how she created this ink drawing of herself before coming to this retreat. It honors her Sufi Heart, a heart-opening yoga pose. Her heart truly shines. I was honored to have met her and experience her creative flow.

round robin canvas

art studio

artist studio-the creative flow
postcard to self

playing with text


resist and text
We began our morning with yoga poses to open up the heart center. Journaling on the dock, we explored places that we love, thought how that space and place felt and imagined what this place looks like.
Our art retreat at continued back at MISA (Madeline Island School of the Arts). After more media demonstrations, participants prepared a “postcard to self”. They will mail these home once they write their dreams, wishes and messages to themselves. A reminder to what is truly important to the artist inside us all. Honoring time and space to create art and to journal is so important the our creative soul.