Queen Bohemia creates surface pattern designs for licensing, as well as paintings and other art objects for sale.

Through years of work and travel, I have drawn and painted out of sheer obsession. I have had little formal art training and spent a career in the computer industry before changing careers late in life to become a massage therapist… and finally admitting that I am an artist. For so long, art took a back seat in my life’s limousine… treated with reverence but not in the driver’s seat.

When COVID sent everyone to their room for a few months, I heard the Universe talking loud and clear and took to my easel. I also made a pact with myself to paint and draw and create from that day forward until the end… for after all, art does feel like the only thing left worth doing most of the time.

For many years, I have been obsessed with circles and spheres. The circle is a potent symbol, full of history and meaning. Circles represent totality, perfection, eternity, the process of evolution and becoming. Spheres, of course, take the circle into another dimension. Since giving in to their magnetic pull on my psyche, I have been exploring the many ways that circles and spheres can be portrayed to evoke feelings of order and chaos, weight and lightness, passion and peace, distance and proximity, beginning and becoming and so much more.

With watercolor, I enjoy the loving interaction between precision and serendipity. With the interaction between the clarity of water and the intensity of color, there is always an element of unknown that expresses itself. The play between the artist and the medium is part of the joy of creating and is evident in the resulting patterns and shapes that emerge. Surface pattern design, bringing my observation, creative and technical skills together, is the newest arrow added to my quiver, expanding my reach and precision in putting my art out into the world.

I hope that viewing my art will bring you joy, delight, perhaps a sense of peace and connection. I see my paintings as openings, doors to a world where magic is key, where strange and unfamiliar objects glitter or glow, inviting your eyes to open and your muscles to relax. I hope my paintings inspire you in a way that makes you take a deep breath, rooting you in the moment and beckoning you to expand your ideas of what is possible and what is beautiful. I want to see my surface pattern designs everywhere, bringing that same joy and delight to this everyday world.

Follow me on Instagram @queenbohemia or here on the website. Invite delight into your life!