Betty Winkler is a retired Licensed Creative Art Therapist (LCAT) plus an artist, author, teacher and former small business owner - https://yamaprints.net/home.html Shaped by moods, light and natural environments, I try to express myself as intimately as possible. All is a continuum of my lifelong experience and promotion of creativity as a means of self-expression, self-awareness and as a force of beneficial energy and action. Most of my early visual art was ‘organic minimalism’, my term meaning distillation into essence using a limited palette, often with soft-edged forms. My poetry has always been minimalist, portraying essence in words. Creativity invites self-awareness, self-expression and is a force of beneficial energy. It’s a process, not always a product. As Creative Arts Therapist and fine-art printer, I assisted others to explore their own unique self-expression. Throughout, I have been compelled to explore and express my own. Creativity is a form of energy. For me, it is forever re-balancing between physical exuberance and focused contemplation. It is stimulus and response, combined.