Coaching for Artists because
​Your honest creative work matters!

If you are going to make your most honest and compelling work, and get it out into the world, you need to feel safe and nourished emotionally, intellectually, creatively, spiritually and physically.

It is that safety and nourishment that makes it possible to reach and stretch in your creative work, to dig deep and to discover your most exciting places. To be Tapped In.

And to feel confident putting your work out in the right venues, charging what it is worth and getting paid!

The well nourished artist has the confidence to tap into the deeper truths, even when it is a vulnerable process, knowing that there is great value there. The well nourished artist knows that their own particular voice is important as part of something much larger than the self, the collective reality of layers of cultures over time and space.

Your honest creative work matters. It is nourishing, grounding, revealing, insightful, life affirming, inspirational, provocative. 

These are questions that you can ask yourself to see how well nourished and tapped in you are:


1. Community: Do you have a place to talk about the depth of meaning in your work and the work of others who you admire? Do you feel isolated or lonely in your studio practice? Do you have a way to talk about the challenges and celebrations of your work with people who are also doing their own work? I made this video about community recently for more details about the layers of community.

2. Your practice: do you feel nourished by your own art making practice, like you are coming home when you get to work? Do you feel excited and curious to see what is emerging? Do you feel more like yourself when you have been making, like the rest of your life flows more easily because you have been taking care of yourself in this way? Is the space you work in inviting and inspiring?

3. Fodder: Do you find yourself doing things, looking at things, reading about things, hearing things, engaged in the world in a way that feeds your work? Do you feel inspired by the world around you? Do you give yourself space and time to open yourself to that inspiration?

4. Time and space structures: Do you have a place or places to work that feel inviting, energizing and supportive to your creative exploration? Do you find yourself avoiding your studio, or feeling discouraged when you get there? Is the time that you invite yourself to do your creative work the right time for you? Is it your most creative time of day? Is it a length of time that feels sufficient and not excessive? Are you able to focus? Are you getting enough done consistently enough that you feel a throughline of creative energy?

5. Life context: Are you taking good care of your body, nourishing food, sleep, and exercise? Do you have a source of income that sustains you without draining you? Do you feel like the time you want and need for your art practice fits well within the context of all the other things you do? Do you have a loving supportive community of friends? Do you have a spiritual practice that feels rich and sustaining?
There are so many things that can get in the way, that can block our natural abilities and drives. And when you clear them out, there is flow and ease and joy in your creative work. 

I am always available for a free consultation.

While that conversation is useful and interesting in itself, the underlying purpose is to see if we are a good fit to work together. If it feels right, I will ask if you want to talk about what that would look like, if it does not feel like a good fit, I will do my best to help you figure out what your next step could be. 

My art work is my grounding and my teacher.

It takes me to the places I need to grow and provides  tools for transformation and healing. This is what I want for you too.

In so many ways I experience my creative work as my spiritual practice, a way to connect to the essential truths of my life and the collective life of the culture and the planet. 

If you resonate with this way of connecting to your creative work and you are longing to expand, deepen or reawaken your creative flow, or if you are ready to put it out into the world with integrity and pleasure, I may be able to help.

My creative journey has naturally led me to offer these ways of sharing my purpose: in my art, through teaching, my writing and videos, and through transformational life coaching for artists and others interested in creative ways of healing the culture and the planet.

Coaching for artists and creatives

I am here to help artists of all sorts who want to invest in their true creative work. I can help when
  • you are ready take your work to a deeper place and create a healthier relationship to your creative side.
  • you want to  understand the value of what you have to offer and how to reach your right audience in a way that feels good.
  • you want to do this in the context of a balanced, healthy and growth filled way.
​Taproot is about having a strong root reaching deep into the dark rich soil of our interiors and the collective source of creative insight and feeding our most beautiful illuminated selves- the stems, leaves, flowers of our waking selves. Taproot is about honoring the unknown, willfully reaching into the darkness and trusting that we can find what we need there for nourishment, insight and growth. It is about taking authorship of our own processes of growth and change and it is about listening deeply to the needs, impulses, desires, creative insights of our deepest most essential selves. It is about being held in community as we delve into this profound work. It is about the radical act of love and patience and listening and holding as we make our honest work.

The core Values of Taproot Arts and Insight are: Integrity, Balance, Depth and Generosity.