expressive artists actioning purpose, power & peace

Professional mentoring to uplevel and align creative viability and voice

A personal path to your creative mastery

Curated 1:1 mentorships are designed to offer personalized guidance to ignite creative inquiry and help you discover your creative purpose. I work with a limited number of dedicated artists each quarter.

Winter 2025 applications open June 15. Apply below.

creative purpose

Winter 2025: Jan. 13-Mar. 3

Find inspired clarity & momentum with contemplative studio inquiry

  • An 8-week immersion of self-discovery and creative empowerment through personalized 1:1 mentorship. This track integrates theory and practice, prioritizing the alignment of personal values with creative impulses to unlock your innate creative potential.

    Guided by heart-focused wisdom, you will explore the depths, nuances, and unique landscape of your creative process, addressing obstacles, nurturing strengths, and forging a pathway towards YOUR authentic creative authority.

    Sessions are live, 90 minute Zoom sessions, once a week, for 8 weeks.

  • • Grounding and perspectives: Navigate through dilemmas, noise, expectations, and narratives shaping your creative journey.

    • Understanding creativity cycles: Explore rhythm, flow, and abundance of creative inspiration.

    • Identifying patterns and overcoming obstacles: Address roadblocks and recurring patterns hindering creative growth.

    • Cultivating authenticity and authority: Embrace your unique voice and creative energy with embodied confidence.

    • Confronting fear and expanding boundaries: Harness fear, freedom, and edges to propel creative exploration.

    • Exploring emotion and expression: Delve into sensation, emotion, and the driving forces behind your artistic expression.

    • Aligning with core impulse and creative desire: Tap into your creative drive and align with your core impulses to propel your artistic journey forward.

    • Redefining motivations, intent, to cultivate fulfillment and purpose: Reframe your motivations to cultivate fulfillment and purpose in your creative pursuits.

  • Enhanced self-awareness: Gain insight into personal values, creative impulses, and patterns shaping your creative expression.

    Expanded creative toolkit: Develop practical strategies for overcoming obstacles, nurturing strengths, and fostering creative innovation.

    Increased confidence: Embrace creative authority and embody authenticity in artistic pursuits with newfound confidence.

    Clarity of purpose: Articulate personal motivations, intent, and creative direction with clarity and conviction.

    Empowered creativity: Harness the power of aligned values and purposeful intent to make meaningful impact

Creative Purpose is hands-on philosophy and practice that maximizes intent and output by embracing potential for innovation. Through a process-oriented approach, we uplevel your mindset, creating a deliberate and thoughtful space where you can flourish. Ideal for artists committed to aligning creative pursuits with personal values and true purpose, this track empowers you to express yourself, refine your aesthetic, and engage meaningfully in art dialogue, prioritizing integrated fulfillment.

It is your time. you are not too much. you are worthy. there is nothing missing. the world needs your art.

WORK WITH ME

I have 30 years of professional art and teaching experience with terminal degrees and training in illustration, drawing, painting, yoga and meditation. My expertise covers a wide spectrum of two and three-dimensional art in process and practice with specialization in concept, critique, and contemplation. 

More about me here >

  • I am a studio artist with proven success mentoring foundation, intermediate, and advanced artists to develop confidence and competence in traditional, new media and professional skills.

    I have taught drawing, painting, sculpture, video, performance, and professional development for renowned community-based programs, workshops, continuing education, undergraduate and graduate programs in the US and Asia.

    I travel extensively to exhibit, attend residencies in the US and abroad, and facilitate studio-based professional development workshop for art educators to experiment, research, and reflect on artistic practice.

    With a love of learning deeply ingrained, I hold contemplative, art therapy, yoga and movement certifications and am constantly producing and absorbing all things creative.

  • 1:1 mentoring is a blend of theory, practice, critique, and independent research.

    Project conception focuses on proposal through execution to explore personal ideas within contextual frameworks including basic and foundational concepts to advanced professional studio practice.

  • My classes aim to provide an entry point into individual’s unique expression in the world. As Mary Oliver says, “What will you do with your one wild and precious life”— the expression of creative purpose must be made the center of our universe so that all forms created come from its energetic manifestation.

    Artists learn to identify problems as opportunities for change and innovation. I believe in rigorous play, where experimental exercises, creative thinking and process is integrated into development, refinement and evaluation of images and cohesive art bodies.

    I am an explorative investigator by nature who is clear, focused and passionate. My strengths are empathy, inquiry, and focus. I have a natural connection with art metaphor to engage curiosity.

    I am a quick-minded, patient, gentle problem solver and intuitive communicator, using big picture thinking with meticulous attention to detail to guide you deeper into your process.

  • Stressing that art is a human activity, not an artist activity, opens a pathway to develop foundations of inquiry. Beginning with the seemingly simple task of observation, artists heighten sensory awareness and cultivate introspection leading to point of view, personal responsibility and conviction.

    Research, experimentation, concept and analysis are the vital practices that lead to innovation in cross-cultural knowledge, in diversity of perspective and ideas, in effective communication, and in collaborative, cross-disciplinary thinking essential to art in the 21st century.

feedback from clients

  • "eileen IS A genuine CRITICAL THINKER. SHE has clear skill and always offers helpful advice and reasoning as to how my drawings could be elevated to frame what i experience.”

  • "the lectures are so well developed. eileen is passionate and insightful about art. all feedback is constructive and timely."

apply for creative mentorship

Interested in working together? Apply below! Spots are limited each quarter. Just answer openly and honestly, no pressure.