I have always loved all things enchanted and was very much like Belle from Beauty and The Beast growing up. I loved books and creating. Writing stories, poetry, I felt as if I could do it forever. Its no wonder that as an adult my career moved into a variety of writing genres.

The image you see was inspired by my love of painting with a very limited palette of cool colors and just deep diving into core memories from places I must have visited.

When the name “Quantum Awakening” came to me, actually titles of my paintings are usually a family affair. Sometimes I know the titles – they come to me while painting and other times, I ask family to help me finish telling the story by sharing what they see.

They all said the same thing that the image reflected that something profound was taking place. A rite of passage, an awakening, a portal, a breakthrough.

To me I just saw it as a magical realm where the beautiful beings that came to life on my canvas where on a journey. Actually, we all are, at every moment.

While painting this I was thinking of the Northern Lights. So I did a bit of research and was delighted to find this story:

Inspired by Greek mythology, Aurora, Goddess of the Dawn, flew across the sky each day to invoke the arrival of the sun. Travelling in and out of the physical world into other realms she summoned