My greatest joy is in creating collages. These images come to me in my dreams, and then I'm compelled to create them. I see the subject in a minimalistic way that, hopefully, unfettered by detail, captures the essence of it. I live on the beautiful and peaceful U.S. Pacific Northwest coast, which provides a great deal of inspiration. I am also a writer and freelance editor with a background in clinical psychology. Some of the images shown here are illustrations from my children's books, 'Katy Rose Likes To Say NO!' and 'Zeke Will Not...more