Katy Bullick is a gardener, psychotherapist and self-taught artist focused on healing people and planet, based out of Oakland, CA.
Simone Weil, a philosopher, mystic and political activist, once wrote, “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” This statement guides Katy’s life, work and creative practice.
In her therapy practice she works with folks from all walks of life, with a particular fondness for supporting artists, activists and the environmentally-concerned to find their voices and step more fully into their power within this crucial historical moment.
In her gardening business, she specializes in the creation of ecological, native and/or edible gardens, assisting the shift toward the continued thriving of wild nature.
In her art practice she dabbles in various creative mediums— currently, mainly printmaking, SLR and medium-format photography and the creation of collage works, with some painting here and there.
In her process of creating she explores themes both mundane and philosophical: beauty as an essential animating antidote to the deadening despair common to our time; the unfolding climate catastrophe, the crisis of capitalism and the way these collective challenges influence and emerge from psychological realities and vice versa; the paradoxical possibilities for transformation that crises always contain; explorations of meaning and purpose amidst the chaos of the Anthropocene; and issues of culture, gender, race, the phenomenology of growth and emergence, responsibility to self and other, and tensions of connection and disconnection at the wild edges of inner and shared experience.
In her spare time she reads and watch films; hikes, bikes and immerses herself in California’s varied ecologies, and grows and cooks her own food.
Thank you for your attention! Please feel free to reach out with any inquiries.