About Emily

Emily’s relationship with art began at an early age in the mountains of Virginia. She grew up coloring, doodling, and painting in every medium she could find, sourcing her creativity from nature and her rich imagination. She studied art throughout adolescence, receiving awards and recognition as a young artist, and eventually earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Radford University.

Her creative path later expanded into the healing and movement arts, where she became a massage and craniosacral therapist, Rolfer, and yoga instructor. These years deepened her relationship with the body, sensation, presence, and the many ways we experience ourselves beyond words. Eventually, she felt called back to the canvas, discovering an art practice that brought together her love of creativity, the body, and intentional living. What began as a return to painting became a deeper exploration of creativity as a way of listening, healing, and living in relationship with the mystery.

In 2017, Emily moved to Salida, Colorado, carrying a simple message from her art: “Follow the love.” In 2020, she made the courageous decision to close her healing practice and devote herself to art full time. She immersed herself in studies at Milan Art Institute, Soul Art School, and Color of Woman Intentional Creativity, while continuing to explore the intersections of art, spirituality, embodiment, and creative practice.

Today, Emily lives and paints full time in Salida, Colorado, where she continues to explore the question at the heart of her work:

Her work is informed by her continued studies as a Rose Priestess and Akashic Records reader, as well as her studies with Inner Temple Mystery School, Herbalism, and QHHT. She describes her work as Visionary-Realism, merging layers of mixed media, oil paint, symbolism, abstraction, and realistic form to create worlds where imagination and possibility can meet.  At the heart of Emily’s work is a relationship with the sacred mystery. Her paintings are born from listening, encounter, and a willingness to follow what emerges. Through her art, she explores what it means to feel, to wonder, to imagine, to listen, and to become—allowing what she discovers along the way to find its way into form.

The Creative Process

My creative process is rooted in my relationship to the mystery. A mystic at heart, I find inspiration in the trees, the water, the animals, the stones, and the sacred that moves through everything around and within me. I see repeated patterns and symbols in nature, hear whispers in the wind, smell the medicine of flowers, taste memories in the rain, feel color frequency in my body - and all of it weaves its way into a multilayered art piece that expresses a mythic story: a journey of transformation, intention, play, magic, imagination, creative potential, beauty, healing, and becoming.

Creating is a journey, not only in the physical act of making art, but in my relationship with my body, the great mystery, and my Soul as I paint. Rather than beginning with a predetermined image, I allow this relationship to guide the work. I listen for what wants to emerge and respond to what I encounter along the way. The painting becomes a conversation between what is seen and unseen; between my inner landscape and the mystery moving through me into form.

The physical ground of my art is created through an intuitive and uninhibited layering of various mediums—spray paint, inks, acrylic paint, pens and mark-making tools, textured mediums, glitter, powdered pigment, and sometimes found elements from nature. As symbols, color, story, energy, and imagery progressively take shape, I move into oil paint.  Oil paint brings a beautiful brilliance and aliveness, allowing the painting and the journey to come to life through rich color, expressive marks, depth, and an increasingly realistic form emerging through many layers.

For me, making art is a form of Sacred Ceremony. The studio becomes a sanctuary where I honor the mystery, listen to Soul, and participate deeply in my own becoming. Each painting is both a journey and a record of that encounter—a moment when something unseen finds its way into form.