About
My creative work as both writer and visual artist focuses on the experience of being human in a complex world filled with uncertainty and possibility. Exploring paradoxes, ambiguities, and the hidden psychological dimensions of ordinary experience drive my work. Knowing just how much to express through words or images is always the challenge. I want to say enough to elicit an emotional and thoughtful response while leaving enough room for readers or viewers to fill in the open spaces in my compositions with their own experiences. Though it may seem that writing and making art are quite different, to me they are synergistic, each informs the other and whether I am writing or making art, metaphor is my principal tool and beauty is my aim.
H. L. Gaydos is a writer, visual artist, and professional nurse specializing in mental health. Combining all these interests, she developed an innovative research approach using visual art to explore self-defining memories earning a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies. In her career as a professor of nursing, she promoted the use of the arts in health care and advocated a holistic approach to care. Her emotionally evocative artwork has been sold for many years through galleries and exhibitions. Her writing includes scholarly publications, essays and poetry, and a spiritual memoir, Patterns: The Mystical Journey of an Ordinary Life.
Now retired from academia, she continues to pursue interdisciplinary study of the intersections among psychology, mythology, spirituality, creativity, and the history and philosophy of science. She lives in Manitou Springs, Colorado where she writes and makes art in her High Country Studio.
