Juniper Irén Blomberg(she/her) was born and raised in the San Juan Islands and believes in the necessity of story and the magic of tea and the nourishment that can be drawn from both. She believes in her ancestors, in the natural world, in honesty, and reciprocity. She works in the alchemy of creativity, which appears most frequently in the form of fine art, folk craft, historically influenced textiles, and the written word. Her alchemical and creative practice is in deep relationship with place, the link between past and future, the feminine, and the folk. Through her work, she endeavors to share the gold of these relationships in a way that supports a nourishing future— one that we can all thrive in.