Welcome to Sacred Spaces!

Let me introduce myself.  I am a new "old" artist.  I began painting at about age eight when my Mother took me with her to her new oil painting class.  She realized I was very keen on doing art, and enrolled me in my own classes.  Together, we painted and sold our paintings during my childhood and youth.  When I graduated from high school and went away to college, I was determined to become an artist.  I was keenly interested in learning skills for painting people as I considered my fellow beings as the Master's finest creations, and sacred.  

At college, I met my husband-to-be, and we were married.  He supported me in being an artist and I arose at 4:30 in the morning before he and our little children awakened in order to practice my art.  Eventually, it became necessary for me to work full time, and I abandoned my desire, instead, to earn a professional degree in health care (occupational therapy) and worked for about 22 years in this profession.  Eventually I went back to school to obtain my clinical mental health counseling degree and worked in my own therapy business for another eight years.  

I recently made the decision to retire, having had a spiritual calling back to art.  My husband and I are now happily retired, all our children are grown and gone out on their own and have given us nine precious grandchildren.  I have converted a large bedroom into my "sacred space."  I have dedicated this space in my home for following the promptings of God, painting, studying God's words, prayer, and working on this virtual sacred space.  Welcome to my sacred space.  I hope you find rest and inspiration as I share my works of art with you.