Baker, West Virginia ~ 1978 -2012 - Quest for Grace ~
BAKER
West Virginia
1978 - 2022
In 1978 I moved to a remote mountain top in West Virginia where I designed and built my home and studio in order to focus exclusively on creativity.
Nonetheless, from 1993 until 2012, for nearly two decades I did not paint if anything, I rarely went into my studio.
My work became secondary as my application to life shifted. I served for ten years as a member of the board of directors of the Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Center. Dr. Ross, was a close friend. She is an internationally recognized author and instrumental in founding Hospice. This friendship developed after attending her "Life, Death and Transition" workshop. These workshops provide training and counseling for working with death and dying. This experience gave me the background for the mission I would soon find himself on, being a compassionate caregiver. In the ensuing years of the AIDS epidemic, I became the primary caregiver for my life companion and many lifelong friends, through thick and thin, until their death.
Then coping with the aftermath of the AIDS epidemic and depression; for nearly two decades I did not paint.
In the summer of 2012, through the encouragement of a caring friend, I rediscovered the pure joy of the creative emergence. At this new juncture of my life, I was back to painting full time and pleased to share the results of this new beginning which continues to this day.
I have often said that my work is simply a documentation of my soul's journey in search of Light.
"An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace."
West Virginia
1978 - 2022
In 1978 I moved to a remote mountain top in West Virginia where I designed and built my home and studio in order to focus exclusively on creativity.
Nonetheless, from 1993 until 2012, for nearly two decades I did not paint if anything, I rarely went into my studio.
My work became secondary as my application to life shifted. I served for ten years as a member of the board of directors of the Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Center. Dr. Ross, was a close friend. She is an internationally recognized author and instrumental in founding Hospice. This friendship developed after attending her "Life, Death and Transition" workshop. These workshops provide training and counseling for working with death and dying. This experience gave me the background for the mission I would soon find himself on, being a compassionate caregiver. In the ensuing years of the AIDS epidemic, I became the primary caregiver for my life companion and many lifelong friends, through thick and thin, until their death.
Then coping with the aftermath of the AIDS epidemic and depression; for nearly two decades I did not paint.
In the summer of 2012, through the encouragement of a caring friend, I rediscovered the pure joy of the creative emergence. At this new juncture of my life, I was back to painting full time and pleased to share the results of this new beginning which continues to this day.
I have often said that my work is simply a documentation of my soul's journey in search of Light.
"An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace."
