As early as the age of seven, Stephanie Reilly began designing clothes and dabbling in art projects for fun. Her passion for art as a way to channel her energy and exercise her imagination grew with her into adulthood. Her profession as a lawyer didn’t satisfy her creative side, so she has continued to explore art as both her hobby and passion.

Using her love of art to educate and inspire others, the Redmond mother of two volunteers as an art docent at The Bear Creek School.

But on Jan. 30, it will be Reilly herself who is in the spotlight, when her show “Thoughts from the Divine,” opens at Pogacha of Issaquah, 120 NW Gilman Blvd.

Using alphabet letters and found objects as her base, Reilly builds highly dimensional pieces on canvass, using layer-upon-layer of texture and color. Her process includes a good deal of random cutting and tearing of paper and fiber and application of meaningful objects to canvass.

Most of her pieces are formed around letters or words and the inspiration they create or the things they can stand for.

Inspired by spiritual presence, Reilly translates her faith-based thoughts to the canvass.

“Each piece is a building project, but unlike an architect with plans, I’m never quite sure when I’m finished,” Reilly said. “I view each piece for a period of time before I decide it is complete. Often I go back to a canvass days or months later and add another layer or texture until it feels just right.”

“Thoughts from the Divine” will run Jan. 30 to March 13, when it will move to Pogacha of Bellevue, 119 106th Ave NE.