Healing in Layers

I am excited to share something very personal with you today: my recent interview with Natalie Jewkes for the Coffee Love Sunshine Summit. It was a conversation that touched on many themes close to my heart—art, healing, intuition, and the power of community. We talked about the layers of life we all navigate and how art can offer a path to peace, healing, and connection.

Natalie’s kindness and openness created such a beautiful space for us to explore these ideas together. If you’ve ever wondered…

There are so many things that feel chaotic in our world right now, I believe that we need a creative practice now more than ever. Art has this gentle way of guiding us back to ourselves, helping us find a quiet sanctuary to escape the noise and reconnect with ourselves in a deeper way. And it's not about making something beautiful—it's about the time spent creating and the peace and healing that happens along the way.

To create this type of space, a place where you can hear the wisdom that lives …

Discover the healing power of mixed media collage in this new YouTube video

If you’ve been feeling weighed down or stuck, and you’re looking for a creative way to release those emotions, I’ve got something special to share with you. My newest YouTube video offers a glimpse into the healing process of crafting wings from mixed media materials like paper and textiles.

It’s more than just an art project—it’s a journey of self-discovery, transformation, and letting go.

Why Wings?

Wings have always been …

There’s a quiet, unspoken magic to nature that runs so much deeper than its surface beauty, something I’ve always felt connected to. I continue to discovered how deeply nourishing it can be when I blend nature's magic with my creative practice, especially as I navigate the ebbs and flows of grief and loss. My mixed media collage practice has become my way to explore those tender layers of grief—piece by piece, layer by layer—just as I’ve learned to uncover the hidden magic of the woods.

Durin…

I am very happy to share with you—my newest video, Simple Steps to Create a Mixed Media Self-Portrait! There’s something truly magical about creating a self-portrait, especially when you let go of the need for perfection and just play with paper, textures, and memories. In this short video, I take you along as I craft a little portrait using a childhood photo, some exciting new materials I’ve been experimenting with, and of course, my favourite mixed media techniques.

If you’ve ever wanted to try…

Sometimes, the most beautiful creations come from the things we overlook. An old canvas with layers of past creations. A scrap of fabric from a worn-out dress. Dried leaves that crunched underfoot on a forest walk. All these pieces, often discarded, carry stories waiting to be told anew.

In mixed media art, there is a certain magic in creative reuse—a practice that invites us to see the world not for what it is, but for what it could become.

Reviving the Past: Reusing Old Canvases

There is a quiet …

In the Creative Delight Studio, we often talk about art as a journey—one that winds through memory, emotion, and imagination. Today, I want to dive deep into the idea of healing in layers. Because, let’s be real, life doesn’t happen all at once, does it? It’s a series of layers, moments, and memories that stack on top of one another, creating the rich, textured landscapes of who we are.

In the Creative Delight Studio workshops, we’ve been exploring this concept through the creation of what I like…

In this video, I’m taking you behind the scenes of my signature workshop, Personal Portraits, to show you how I create expressive mixed media portraits by redefining faces using multiple reference photos. Watch as I move through the process of altering the shape of a face and blending unique features from different images to create a completely original portrait.

Using a variety of mixed media techniques, I’ll demonstrate how to layer paint and oil pastels, to build depth and emotion in a portrai…

Art has a way of speaking to the deepest parts of us, doesn’t it? Our creative processes are about so much more than making art, they are about mending and nurturing our inner worlds.

We all love joining art classes, right? I certainly do. Sometimes, it feels like a real battle to carve out the time, but the rewards are always worth it. Life can feel like a rollercoaster of emotions and events, and finding those quiet moments to breathe and create can seem impossible. That’s where the art class c…

”Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fall, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.” ~ Yasmin Mogahed

Resilience in art-making is not just about finishing a piece of art; it’s about understanding that the process itself is valuable. It’s about recognizing that the challenges we face in our creative work are opportunities for growth, both as artists and as humans.

I just finished a commissioned portrait that I have been working on …