If we are failing, it is a failure of imagination.

Adija was born in Philadelphia in 1951. She attended The Miquon School, a very alternative education for the 1950's, and one that, she feels, taught her that everything is a form of art and that art has no required form.

Her passion for children and for the creative process inspire the childlike creations that often are her art. To be like a child, creating from a place of innocence and without judgement, is her artistic goal.

Adija is a writer, a musician, and a Feng Shui designer, and a peace activist. She has worked in research and design in the craft and art industries, and continues to study art process as she teaches it to children.

All of life is an art form; as we are the creators of it all.

"My paintings create me. Painting is my practice, my way of contributing to the collective imagination."

I rarely have a plan for a painting but rather each stroke directs the next. I often begin a landscape and then "work away from the image" as an inner landscape paints itself over the canvas.  I continue to paint over and over until the painting is "rescued" from me. It's not about the "paintings"; art is a way for me, a path, not a destination.

When children look at an "abstract" painting, they immediately see the "horse" or the "face" without having to first see through the abstraction. As one young student said to me,"sure, I know what abstract art is, it's the stuff you have to squint at in order to see what it is!" My passion for working with our children stems from my desire to participate in the world that sees love and peace without having to first see through all of this abstraction."

Welcome to my journey,

Adija