Being human is hard.
Let your creativity make it easier.

Art is a form of magic.
Creativity is a source of alchemy.
Imagination opens a pathway to embodiment.

Artistic Alchemy is the application of your creative skill to delightfully influence the course of your life. Use your magic to deepen your connection to your ancestors, your emotions, and the legacy you leave in this world. Use your artistry to spell your vision into reality.

Make magic with your dreams, memories, and vision. Listen for the ways your Ancestors echo in your bones; guiding you, protecting you, blessing you. Breakdown the way supremacy culture wraps itself around spirituality and ground your rituals in the unique alchemy only you can invoke.

Come home to yourself
and create the life you crave.

New Offering •

New Offering •

Story of the Ancestors Custom Artwork

An Heirloom Artwork to Love
the Ancestors You Only Know in Story

Honor the Ancestors you feel connected to but don’t have images of. Create an artwork for your home or altar that embodies the energy you seek to invoke from your bloodline or an energy you want to give back as an offering of gratitude or devotion.

Custom Commissions

Grief Guardian

Give me 3 words to embody the energy of the Grief Guardian you’re wanting to bring into your life. I’ll turn your vision into a visual Guardian you can hang in your home and look at daily.

Story & Dream Keepers

Some stories are too deep for words, and too special to forget. Some baby dreams are too intimate for other’s ears. This is where Story Keepers and Dream Guardians enter your world.

Book Covers, Album Art, & More

Have a project you’re interested in working on together? Let’s talk! I’ve worked on a wide range of projects and love seeing the unique requests that arrive on my digital doorstep.

Magic in Many Forms

Have a quick peek at all the ways you can deepen intimacy with your life here through ritual creativity and mundane magic.

  • Learn to make earth pigment watercolor & gouache paint, develop a personal color palette reflecting your values & desires, build a rich practice of playfully cultivating creative ceremony, and more.

    Programs range from a few hours, to a self-paced year long journey.

  • Session Themes Include:
    Relational Mentorship
    • Ancestral Awakening
    • Leadership Development
    • Creative Midwifery
    • and more

    Learn More & Book

  • Enjoy a curated collection of offerings that explore the themes of grief, success, ritual, and cultivating sustainable joy within your limits all using your creativity as a foundation.

    Shop Now:
    • The Redefining Success Journal
    • The Grief Guardian Coloring Book
    • The Moonbook

    Coming Soon:
    • The Daybook
    • The Kid's Daybook
    • The Rainbow Inside Me, a children's book exploring how the science of color shows us it's normal to be different.

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    ALL BOOKS & JOURNALS ARE AVAILABLE WHOLESALE

  • Available immediately upon purchase, these digital workbooks are designed to build depth in the relationship you have with yourself, and your life, through easeful creative practices & frameworks.

    Coming Soon:
    • Your Vibrant Lineage: Exploring Ancestral Wisdom through Color Theory
    • The Congruent Decision Making Framework
    • Perspective Prism: An Energy System for Creative Inspiration

  • Bring your story to life in any medium I offer.

    • Relief Sculpture
    • Weaving
    • Painting
    • Illustration
    • Ecoprinting & Natural Dying
    • Leather Painting
    • Block Printing

    Let's discuss your commission

  • Join me in Sicily in 2025 for 2 incredible retreat gatherings where we'll explore Artistic Alchemy in delicious, beautiful, and deep ways.

    Spring 2025 co-hosted with Cummari Sicily
    Fall 2025 co-hosted with Radici Siciliane

    More details coming soon.

  • Whether you're looking for creative team building experiences that expand the leadership skills in your organization, or you're seeking an inspiring talk to motivate your employees, I offer a variety of options to that bring my creative, trauma educated skills to the corporate world.

    Let's connect to discuss your needs.

  • Join me on the Talking to Huemans podcast, where you'll get to enjoy an unconventional show that mimics a newspaper for your ears.

    Inspired by the idea of ongoing regular news columns, I've designed the show with many smaller columns inside, all co-hosted with different artists & creators I have the honor of calling my closest friends.

    Talking to Huemans Columns:
    • Difference is a Playground with James-Olivia Chu Hillman
    • Femme in the World with Morganne King
    • Everything is Fine...Art with Emily Jeffords
    • Bedda Mia, Sicilia with MaryBeth Bonfiglio
    • Inspired Interviews with rotating guests

    Plus The Creators Column which functions like a digital community board where listeners to share their own offerings in a few sentences. Each mini compilation episode shares a selection of offerings.

Learn About 1-1 Sessions

  • Develop your relational skills and recover from relational pain with support and guidance rooted in the PCA (person centered approach) framework, trauma integration tools from The Center for Mind Body Medicine, and Transformative Justice.

  • Do you crave connection to your dead? Do you yearn for your Ancestors but don't know anything about your bloodline? These sessions are designed to support your journey of uncovering and connecting to the ones you've come from.

  • What do you do with the power you have? What do you do when you feel powerless? Build your leadership toolkit using PCA (person centered approach) skills, Transformative Justice, and my 10+ years of teaching & public speaking experience.

  • Receive reflections on your energy body. Prior to giving birth in 2018, I ran a school of Energy Medicine training practitioners to cultivate their personal power and magic and bring that to clients. All of this and more is woven into my energy readings & channelings.

  • Do you carry within a longing to give voice to the complexities of your life? Do you feel an untold story within your yearning for expression? Find not only a deeper connection to your creative power but also a renewed sense of purpose and clarity in how you share your story with the world.

  • If life is feeling overwhelming and you feel separated & severed from the magic you know is within you, these sessions are the perfect fit to build accessible ritual into your life.

Journals and Books

The Moonbook

Use this journal twice a month, with the Full and New Moons, to slow down and let off a bit of the mental & emotional weight you carry.

The Redefining Success Journal

Designed to meet you on your lowest days, and remind you you’re so much more than what you accomplish. Do less, enjoy your life more.

The Grief Guardian Coloring Book

This coloring book is a guide through the agony of loss. When days feel like years but time stops moving, you'll find easy support in these pages.

Evergreen Coming Soon

Evergreen Coming Soon

Soil & Skills

Earth Pigment Paint Making & Relational Skills

Make life feel easier, more creative, and more intimate. Learn to forage & process earth pigments into watercolor & gouache paint while learning to create greater inner stability during seasons of change.

Bring light to your inner shadows, turn dirt to art, and transform fear into trust.

Clothing & Candles

Vyana Novus   

I believe we learn about this world through our creativity, and about ourselves through community. That’s the core of my work—creating and relating, in all of the many forms that can take.

Vyana’s expertise and direction allowed me to fully surrender my project into their capable hands, knowing they would bring out the best in every aspect. It’s a privilege to work with someone who can transform ideas into stunning realities.
— Lisa Anderson Shaffer, Zelma Rose
between the veil of reality and infinity.

Current & Previous Clients

Let’s make something beautiful. 

On each project we collaborate on, Vyana takes it to the next level artistically.
— Jess Purple, Photography Collaborator