Margaret Carpenter Arnett, Summer Evening, 2025, soft pastel, 16 x 20 x 1 in

Margaret Carpenter Arnett BSN, ATR was born and educated in England and has lived most of her adult life in the western United States. Artist, art therapist, teacher, and writer, she is an accomplished and talented painter. Primarily a watercolorist, Margaret now works with pastel, mixed media, and collage. She is a signature member of the Northwest Pastel Society and has participated in juried and invitational shows in California and the northwest. She works closely with the Museum of Northwest Art. Combining her art and nursing backgrounds, Margaret became an art therapist in !983 and led an art therapy support group at the University of Washington Cancer Center for sixteen years. She has worked as an art therapist in the community at large for the past forty years, and currently leads a group in Visual Journaling at La Conner Senior Center. Believing that art facilitates healing both through self-expression, and as a key to the door of the unconscious mind, she wrote and published "The Art of the Inner Journey" in 2011, and her memoirs "Invisible Threads" in 2022, The Art of the Inner Journey was re published in full color in 2024 and is available on Amazon, Barnes Noble and Readers Magnet.