Visual Medicine - A Radically Transformative Creative Practice

One of the many joys of my life is that painting is the way in which I have come to know Earth...painting is the way I know I belong here.

Painting is the way that my soul has learnt to speak with the Ancestors and the Pattern Creation Beings that hold the worlds in place. When these beings come through on a walk or in the studio - I feel a palpable sense of familiarity. I know them because I feel them in my bones - not just my eye sockets but deep in the resonating pockets of my marrow. They are the opposite of clean and white - they are wild water spilling beyond edges - they have their own grammar that defies our worded structures - but when you feel them - a right coherence settles in - and you/I/we can breathe knowing they are still with us.

First two images - photos of fungi in aging tree + tree bark...the rest are paintings with the Pattern Creation Ancestors.

Visual Language is our first language. It is the language we dream in.

For more than 25 years, I have created thousands of small paintings through a practice I call Visual Medicine™️.
Seen individually, these works may appear to be abstract. Yet when gathered together, another reality becomes visible. What emerges is not just a collection of images, but a visual ecology.

Across decades, recurring forms arrive spontaneously—without a plan, a sketch, or even a paintbrush. Cells, rivers, seeds, stars, ancestors, and serpents appear repeatedly, creating a long conversation in a pattern language that belongs simultaneously to the human psyche and the living Earth.

This is the language of the material world, of living systems, of roots, memory, and imagination.

And you are invited to speak it.

I am now ENROLLING for the next round of our immensely powerful three-month course: PAINTING WITH SPIRIT (Starting September 2026).

Step through the veil and learn to co-participate with the creational forces that birth the galaxies. No art experience is necessary. Come exactly as you are. Link in bio for more details.