Each year I offer Creative Nature Connection programs in elementary schools. Youth learn to paint and draw with nature for joy and connection.To give you …
Paint with Nature using the senses to connect & create. Emerald waves, ocean winds, light play, tree shadows, falling leaves, and the unseen inspire painting encounters that foster connection with the living world and boost creative flow.
I am inspired to paint flashes of beauty- a beautiful bird call, the patterned play of light on the water, the movement of waterstriders- anywhere, anytime. Over 30 years ago I discovered the creative power of connecting directly with the the living world through touch, sound, intuition and pattern while painting with fingertips of both hands on the page. This expanded into drawing with both hands too. Like flipping a switch, creative flow is almost immediate. I have developed this aapproach into the Creative by Nature Paint Method. I share a selection of these paint with nature encounters and hope to inspire others to animate their natural creative ability for joy, connection and artful expression. I'd love to know what inspires you. So please share.
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Inspired Perspectives interview with Cornelia Krikke
I am so honoured for the opportunity to share my work with Transformational Practices expert Cornelia Krikke in her Inspired Perspectives Series. Here is our …
Summer Art Classes on Salt Spring
I am really excited to be offering two art programs on Salt Spring this summer- The 1 Day Art Retreat for adults & Kids Nature Art Camp. The …
Murmuration Art: To Draw Along with Starlings
I love to track the flight of a single bird in a flock, letting my pen move in synchrony with her swoops and undulations. There …
Chasing Bliss Show
For the first time ever, my hubby Kuno Egger and I are having a show together. I hope you can come to the reception Friday …
Water Colour Play
In the spirit of nature art improvisation, I truly love to paint with surf and sand. You may be wondering what I mean by this. …
Sidney Spit Art: The Joy of Painting with the Sea
But tired of land, we open ourselves to oceans, tired of time we give back all that we’ve taken, tired of ourselves we open ourselves to ourselves …
SAIL STRETCH CREATE – Sailing, yoga and painting trip in the Gulf Islands, BC.
Announcing the 2nd Annual SAIL STRETCH CREATE – a sailing, yoga and painting adventure. On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs …
Four Characteristics of Art Anywhere Anytime
Feel free, calm, connected, in the moment and more in awe of nature’s beauty by painting wherever and whenever inspiration strikes. The impulse to paint …
Four Reasons to Colour in Your Own Drawings
Recently there has been an explosion in the popularity of adult colouring books. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/adult-colouring-books-most-wished-for-1.3304409 Colourers (is this a real word?) report feeling calm and have a …
What’s in the bag? Art on the go with a traveling paint kit
A journey away from home is a great opportunity to deepen your art practice. In fact I find my creative juices go on high boil …
Tafoni Touch
Tafoni Touch: The simple beauty of making art with texture If the air is jam-‐full of sounds which we tune in with, why should it not also …
Spheres of Influence Show
Spheres of Influence: Between my body and the breathing Earth This series of images was born out of a commitment to paint with abandon. By freely …
Snow Art II- Diamonds and Fluff
My friend and fellow artist/ basket maker Heather Martin McNab inspired me to finish and post this second Snow Art video. You see she is …
The One A Day Painting Challenge
I just had a thought that it would be fun to go back to a core practice of daily Journal Painting: One A Day. That is, …