I am a mixed-media and textile artist, as well as a published author and academic, who resides in Vancouver, BC. I came to visual art in 2018 after a long hiatus, when I was diagnosed with a chronic health condition and became unable to work in my position as an English professor. I delved into abstract painting and found in it a solace of sorts, as well as a powerful way to express my health challenges visually rather than verbally. In the process, I became deeply interested in the connections between embodiment, faith, and visual art and continue to grapple with the question: How can I express visually what something feels like experientially? My artwork can thus be seen as a visual expression of what I feel from where I stand, a perception of external or internal sensory experience in colour, line, form, and pattern. I am drawn to abstraction in this process because it invites us to see reality differently, to de-familiarize the familiar or surprise us with a new perspective. In the past few years, I have had various group and solo art shows on the West Coast and have taught art and textile practices, both online and in-person. I recently completed an 8-month Sacred Arts Fellowship with The Grünewald Guild focusing on textile collage, natural dyeing, and slow stitch practices. My clients range across North America.