The directness, flow, and pauses of the multi-voiced conversation in the landscape inspire Ivy’s drawings and paintings. She uses playful marks, patterns, spontaneity, and abstraction to describe the expressive spirit of nature. This loose and immediate quality of the imagery conveys the energetic feeling of being in the land. Through her work, she shares a joyful sense of nature’s rhythms and patterns. She invites viewers to connect with nature’s depth, poetry, and power that holds and sustains all life.Her academic training includes a Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing from the University of Colorado at Boulder, a Master of Arts in Ecopsychology from Naropa University, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking from Colorado State University in Fort Collins.