About Brenda

I create abstract, mixed media works on a variety of surfaces. I utilize paints, inks, pastels, herbal teas, and digital tools to depict imagery from dreams, meditation, and depth exploration of the psyche. Whenever possible, I repurpose draft, experimental, and surplus prints of my own mixed and multi-media work, installing smaller pieces between metal bezels and glass or resin to create sustainable art jewelry.

My work is a continuing expression of my longtime involvement with the ideas and methods of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung. For more than twenty years, I have recorded my dreams and other waking images from the psyche. I engage with that content using a method Jung termed active imagination.

I’m always looking for new ways to present and reveal the imagery, and for you to experience it. My work tends to be a sacred marriage between awkwardness and fascination. Sometimes, there’s beauty, but I’d much rather you think, “That is so bizarre and I just can’t stop looking at it.” I’m interested in exploring composition, scale, and parts of the whole. What inspires one client to hang a three-foot by four-foot print on their wall, while another would prefer to wear a two-square-centimeter portion of that same art piece as a pendant?

Whenever possible, the prints used in my jewelry are upcycled and repurposed. The creation of new work results in a lot of experimentation; and the fulfillment of client orders generates scrap paper, discards, and remnants, that aren’t saleable as art prints. My phenomenal local print team saves for me the discards they generate from producing my orders. My sustainable art jewelry was born from finding ways to reinvigorate those discards. The prints and their scraps come in different sizes, so even when images come from the same section of a painting, their varying dimensions (as well as the behavior of the sealants and adhesives) ensure that no two jewelry pieces are identical.

How you experience the imagery is important to me. Email me at imagery@manscribe.com and let me know what you see. Etsy members can also access my shop @ManscribeMediaworks by clicking HERE. Follow me on Instagram @manscribe and on Facebook @manscribemedia and @manscribe. Come to Sedona and see my mixed media work and jewelry on display and for sale at the Village Gallery, located at 6512 AZ-179, in Sedona, Arizona’s Village of Oak Creek.