Sige is an abstract artist, dancer, psychotherapist, mother and community tender. She works with collage and mixed media at her studio in Sebastopol, California.

She received an Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design and Art History from Washington University School of Art in 2001. She was a Studio Artist and Arts Educator at Root Division, an arts incubator in San Francisco’s Mission District while pursuing a Masters Degree in Integral Counseling Psychology from the California Institute for Integral Studies.

Focusing mostly on the healing arts as a therapist and owner of SF Women’s Therapy for the last twenty years, Sige returned to her studio art practice in 2022 to find herself again after emerging from the cocoon of early motherhood.

Sige fell in love with abstract art as a way to unwind her perfectionism and connect with the spontaneous joy of improvisational mark making. She approaches each piece with a beginners mind, holding an openness, eagerness, and lack of preconception, like an alluring dance with the unknown.

Her visual language incorporates analogous color palettes and negative space in contrast with bold gestural marks used to express specific emotional landscapes. In her recent work she explores the process of “forgetting and remembering” by veiling layers of collage with a solid field of paint that is then sanded down to excavate a rich history of colors, textures and shapes. What emerges is a surprising interplay of concealing and revealing that speakes to her own inner way of relating with herself and the world.

She thanks local artists, Suzanne Jacquot, Catherine Cruz and Karen Meadows who’s unique abstract and mixed media approaches have been instrumental in helping her find her own visual style.