Nuala Clarke is an abstract painter living in the west of Ireland. Her work is shown throughout the world and has been supported through grants from The Arts Council, Ireland. She is engaged in a multidisciplinary research project into Robert Boyle and the healing probabilities of abstract art.

Crystal Gandrud is an experimental writer and acquiring editor living between Cambridge, New York, and Normandy. Her work can be found in many literary journals and often pushes the boundary between the written word and art. She has practiced Vajrayana Buddhism for over 20 years.

Rob Ward is the songwriter and lead vocalist for Food Will Win the
War. He began his music studies as a classically trained violist and
went on to study music theory and composition under composers such as Marc Cheban, Steve Miles, Rob Constable, James Fei, Brad Garton, Jason Freeman, and Luke Dubois.

Through these studies, he developed his current technique to create “soundscapes” using processed field recordings, electronically synthesized sound, and live performance on traditional western instruments. He also performs drone-based solo viola compositions and improvisations.

Kate Greer Dickson will lead this month’s follow up online meditations.

Kate is a student and teacher of Hatha Yoga for twenty years, a committed Vajrayana Buddhist practitioner, and an apprentice Dharma teacher under her teacher, Lama Tsultrim Allione. She is completing her PhD in Depth Psychology, founded by Carl G. Jung, and is a certified Feeding your Demons teacher and facilitator. She is a mother to two sons who rock her world.