In 1944 three of my most inspiring artists — Hilma af Klint, Piet Mondrian, and Wassily Kandinsky — died. It was also the year I was born. Their explorations of inner vision, symbolic form, and the unseen dimensions of perception have shaped my artistic life for as long as I can remember.
Golden Strands is a space devoted to the quiet crossings where art, attention, and inner life meet. I explore the moments when perception deepens, when an image begins to form from within, and when the creative process becomes a doorway to a more attuned way of seeing.
My work centers on contemplative art, perception, creative process, drawing practice, and mindful creativity. These are not separate subjects for me but interwoven thresholds — places where the outer world and the inner world touch, inform one another, and sometimes reveal something unexpected.
Over the decades I’ve worked as an artist, writer, and teacher, developing perceptual‑cognitive approaches to drawing and creative practice. My background includes years of teaching at the Green Meadow Waldorf School, writing and illustrating books, and creating visual art that invites the viewer into a deeper field of attention. Much of my work grows from a lifelong study of how images arise before they become visible, how attention shapes what we see, and how simple practices can open the way to deeper perception.
If you’re drawn to the mystical, inner dimension of creativity — the part that unfolds beneath the surface of technique — you’ll feel at home here. Through essays, images, and occasional guided practices, I invite you to slow down, look again, and step across the thresholds that shape how we see and how we create.
This publication is for mystics, creatives, contemplatives, and anyone who senses that the arts are not only something we form, but something that forms us.
This Substack explores mindfulness in action — the moment‑to‑moment practice of seeing more clearly, responding more consciously, and allowing creativity, perception, and inner life to move in harmony. It’s mindfulness as lived experience, not theory.
