artist | writer | mystic
Constance writes and paints
on themes of nests, nature,
and rituals of renewal.
Constance writes and paints from her home in the Pacific Northwest.
ARTIST
Constance started painting images of birds’ nests in the mid-90s with shows in Santa Fe, Dallas, Seattle, Los Angeles, Anacortes and the San Juan Islands.
The paintings are intended to mark milestones on people’s life journeys: celebrating new homes, marriages, babies, visions.
Since 2015, her nest work includes massive and fanciful nest installations at festivals in nature.
She also creates watercolor nature illustrations called “Field Notes on Renewal.”
WRITER
Constance learned how to write poetry at 11, by watching her mother, who had learned by watching hers.
Her work has appeared in anthologies Surrounded, Living with Islands; Ars Poetica; and The Raven Chronicles. Two poems were honored by the Washington Poets Association in the William Stafford category.
She is a former reporter and feature writer and her column Nesting Instincts won first place from the Society of Professional Journalists.
MYSTIC
When Constance was 13, she headed alone to the mountains 80 miles from her home to 1. contemplate the meaning of life and 2. get a mission from God. This self-initiated “vision quest” set the tone for a life-long fascination with the Unknowable Mystery.
She embarked on two other contemplative quests, both to Home Lake, midway between Mt Constance and Mt Mystery on the Olympic Peninsula. She has done two pilgrimages to White Sands National Park, a 236-acre drift of gypsum sand dunes, near where she was born.
