About Kate

I was born into an atmosphere of terror and rage. Our's was the 'dysfunctional family' on the street and although my wonderful mum did her best, my siblings and I were met with shocking degrees of neglect, poverty, abuse, violence and fear. But from as early on as I can remember I felt a strong sense of knowing that no o­ne was to blame. I couldn't condone the behaviour going on around me, it's true they were responsible for the choices they made, but I could clearly see that they weren't waking up everyday hoping to make my life sad. I could somehow see that they were caught in a continuation of human pain that stretched way back through generations. And although I was living this drama of my life, I knew it wasn't anything to do with who I really was. I somehow sensed my essential nature was far more wonderful than that. And so began my passionate inquiry into the nature of reality, into who I really am, and how to bring my gifts to the world.

All the strands of my life and my work as human, woman, mother, grandmother, teacher/therapist, collage artist, and children's author, are pointing to the same place, which is my all-consuming, life-long passion for transformation - transforming chaos into peace, pain into love, past into present, words into books and paper snippings into art.

This is my invitation...X