About Brenda

I create abstract, mixed media works on a variety of surfaces. I combine media, including 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 and discarded prints of my work, combining smaller cuttings with materials such as glass cabochons, metal bezels, and resins, 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. I’m interested in exploring composition and scale. 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 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 art jewelry was born from finding ways to incorporate 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.

What you see in the imagery is important to me. Email me at imagery@manscribe.com. I hope you enjoy exploring my website here, where you can download free art, follow my blog, and see my latest work. Etsy members can also access my shop @ManscribeMediaworks by clicking HERE. Follow me on Instagram @manscribe and on Facebook @manscribemedia and @mancribe. 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. You can also purchase my jewelry at the Verde Canyon Railroad Gift Shop, located at 300 N. Broadway, in Clarkdale, Arizona.