About Kaveri
Kailua Beach, Oahu
Aloha! My name is **Kaveri! ​ Born in Honolulu, I lived 2 ½ blocks from Kailua Beach on Oahu with my family.
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The white sand, turquoise ocean and warm breezes were truly heaven on earth. I'm sure that my love of nature began on that beach.
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We moved to the Bay Area when I was 4, settling in Napa, where I grew up. After graduating high school. I worked in the wine industry for a short while like many valley kids.
But I craved adventure so I headed north to the Okanogan Valley in Washington to pick apples.
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The barn loft next to the orchard where I worked had fruit bats living in it. They were so shy and cute with their wings wrapped around them like blankets when they slept!
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After working the harvest, it came time for yet another adventure so​ I headed to Hawaii, my first visit since I was a tot.
​When I descended the stairs from the plane to the tarmac upon landing in Kona, I had the stunning sensation, that I had found "home". At last...
So….what'd I do? I sewed up my life back on the mainland and moved to Kona, of course!! The magnetic pull could not be denied.
I settled up mauka (up the mountain) above the town of Captain Cook with a community of like-hearted souls. We were off-grid, a mile above the main two-lane road.
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Living in a remote area without electromatic waves, my senses became radically keen. I was able to feel the energies of the land, the aina.
When I began painting, these energies were organically transmuted into my work.
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After 6 years off-grid, we moved down the hill, to our on-grid, 1-acre property, outside of Kainaliu. It was here that I began my painting odyssey.
​On a whim, I signed up for a watercolor class with a well-known artist down the hill in Kailua-Kona.
We were to paint a waterfall scene from a picture provided by the instructor.
By the end of class, I was shocked that I'd created a more than decent painting.
“You have something here, you must keep going.", the instructor remarked. And I did!
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Our yard in Kainaliu was a botanical wonderland with exotic flowers that became the inspiration for my paintings.
My first painting!
My life in Kona was right out of a storybook, yet, after 17 years, it was time to reintegrate back into Bay Area life...I had had a good run in Hawaii!
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My adventure continued....I moved from Kona into a cottage in an oak grove, on a hilltop with a view of Sonoma Valley, land of luminous full moons, fine wine and gourmet cuisine.
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I dove right in and began painting the new subject matter, starting with roses!​​
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**Pronounced "Kuh-'very", my yoga name. It means "bringer of nourishment" and is the
name of a sacred river in southern India, the Kaveri River, where I was gifted my name.
