HeARTscapes (he)Art Space

is a growing ecosystem of relational, process-based art experiences designed to support connection, reflection, and authentic expression. Through community gatherings, guided painting experiences, and immersive retreats, each offering invites participants to explore creativity not as performance, but as a pathway to presence, belonging, and personal insight. Whether you are joining for a single evening of artmaking or a deeper retreat experience, Heartspace events create welcoming spaces where creativity becomes a shared practice of connection, healing, and joyful exploration.

This season, I’m hosting a series of Heartspace creative experiences—from community art gatherings and paint nights to immersive retreats—each designed to help you reconnect with creativity, community, and your own inner voice. Whether you’re seeking a relaxed evening of painting, meaningful connection through shared making, or a deeper reflective creative retreat, these offerings invite you to step into art as a practice of presence, expression, and belonging.

Upcoming Pop Up Events

Heart to Hand: Creating Together

February 14th from 9 - 11:30am in Poncha Springs, CO

This Family Studio Day is not about perfect projects or matching keepsakes—it’s about shared presence, playful exploration, and connection through art. Families move through open studio invitations designed to support curiosity, collaboration, and meaningful moments between children and caregivers.

Register HERE

Paint & Sip Creativity Night

February 20th, 6 - 7:30pm in Salida, CO

Enjoy a Paint & Sip at the Salida Sout Hut with artist and educator Maren Miller of Love Rock Residue and Heartscapes Art Space who focuses on process art, creativity, and community. Come and paint, laugh, and create with others as Maren leads you through mixed media activities that explore creativity and process. All materials provided. Friday, February 20, 6pm-7:30pm.

Register HERE

Paint From Your Soul

March 28th & 29th Online Retreat

An intuitive art experience designed to help you reconnect with your creativity, trust your inner voice, and express your authentic self through painting. Blending gentle artistic guidance with reflective and intuitive practices, this offering supports beginners and experienced creatives alike in releasing perfectionism, exploring emotion through color and form, and creating meaningful soul-led artwork.

Register HERE

HeARTscapes (he)Art Space

Heartscapes Art Space

Process art • creativity • emotional expression • community

Heartscapes Art Space is a gentle, playful, and deeply human-centered art space rooted in process over product. It is an invitation to explore creativity as a language for emotions, identity, healing, and connection—without judgment, pressure, or the need to “be good at art.”

Grounded in Reggio Emilia–inspired values, somatic awareness, and my background as both an art educator and holistic coach, Heartscapes honors art as a way of knowing, releasing, and being in relationship with ourselves and one another.

This work is for children, caregivers, and community members who long for:

creative freedom
emotional expression beyond words
nervous-system–aware art spaces
belonging through shared making

At Heartscapes, the process is the point.

Heartscapes Art Space is inspired by creative studios such as Meri Cherry Studio (Los Angeles), Space DNVR (Wheat Ridge), and Heartspace Therapy (Minneapolis)—models that celebrate imagination, emotional expression, and child-led, heart-centered exploration. These environments demonstrate how process art builds confidence, creative problem-solving skills, and deep connection. My goal is to bring that same accessible, inclusive spirit to Salida.

A Place Where Creativity Leads

Heartscapes Art Space is a community-centered art experience for children rooted in process over product, play over performance, and curiosity over perfection.

This is not a craft class.
It’s not about following steps or making something “right.”

It’s an invitation for children to explore materials freely, express themselves authentically, and build confidence through the joy of creating.

Based in Salida, Heartscapes offers open-ended art sessions and pop ups for Pre-K and elementary-aged children outside of school time—after school, on Fridays, and weekends—designed to nourish imagination, emotional expression, and connection.

What Is Process Art?

Process art focuses on the experience of making, not the finished product.

In a Heartscapes session, children are encouraged to:

explore materials without a predetermined outcome
follow their curiosity and intuition
take creative risks and make “mistakes”
listen to their feelings and ideas
create in ways that feel meaningful to them

There are no examples to copy.
No pressure to perform.
No expectation to take something home that looks a certain way.

The learning happens in the doing.

Why Heartscapes Exists

As a former art teacher and current preschool teacher at Ark Valley Preschool in Poncha Springs, I’ve seen how powerful creativity can be when children are given time, space, and trust.

Inspired by Reggio Emilia–influenced learning Heartscapes was created to bring more child-led, heart-centered art experiences to the Salida community—especially in a rural area where these opportunities can be hard to find.

At Heartscapes, art becomes: