About Allie

Welcome! I’m so glad you’re here.

I am an abstract artist and meditation, yoga nidra, yoga guide originally from New York, currently living in Portland, Oregon. My artwork is inspired by living most of my life with chronic aura migraines. The debilitating & blinding pain that comes along & blurs my vision, leaving me immobile in a dark room with no light or sound becomes a pathway to deep self inquiry, clarity & inspiration. Immersed in darkness, light and colors would emerge and dissolve behind my eyes, shapeshifting into different worlds that could only be illuminated by the darkness.

My pain became a portal to beauty. The imprints left in my mind created by the visceral pain of migraines are reflected in my artwork.

Glimpses of colors & shapes dance together to create meditative landscapes, a reprieve from something so painful. I continue to be inspired by the question: How can I show something that’s invisible? I discovered my process from a college assignment: take a photograph of nothing. I was so inspired by this idea of what nothing can mean:darkness, emptiness & invisible space. I was instantly reminded how migraines & meditation offer this same inquiry.

My dad gave me my first film camera when I was 10 years old & I became fascinated with being in the dark room in high school and college, seeing images appear when submerged in the quiet darkness. This became a theme: how darkness is a space for light to exist in. I am inspired by the inward experience that meditation and migraines have illuminated.

Between my eyes & the lens, the imprints I see behind my eyes suddenly spring to life.​ Art is a shared experience:creating and letting yourself be seen by others becomes a mirror for people to be curious about their own inner worlds.

My passion and purpose is to explore the integration between art and meditation. We can use these tools to illuminate the world within: inviting more clarity, compassion and understanding to ourselves and the world.

My specialty is holding space for groups and individuals to come home to the wisdom within themselves through the therapeutic process of creative expression. Blending meditation and art becomes an illuminated pathway home to who you truly are. When we allow ourselves the space to be curious and show up for the process of self discovery, we live our lives in full, vibrant color.