Welcome!

I love the process of creating, be it art, music or a delicious meal. It’s how I try to make sense of this chaotic and beautiful world. I want to make a difference and hope that the music and art I create resonate with people on some level - providing hope, a spark, some kind of meaning.

In recent years, I’ve become more interested in improvisation, both in my visual art practice, and as a way of making music. It is an approach that requires a solid foundation of skills, mindfulness, trust, presence and intuition. During the creative process I ask,“What does the painting want? What does it need?”, so that the painting becomes less about ‘me’, and more about ‘itself’.

 In terms of imagery, I am interested in the qualities of water and its ability to reflect, suspend, reveal, and conceal. We allow people, objects and experiences in our day-to-day lives to affect us on both conscious and subconscious  levels. While working on this body of work, I have thought a lot about how we are connected, by relationship, memory, and time, to everything that has come before us, and everything that will come after us.

In a past series, I explored abstract elements found in nature that resulted in dynamic, colourful, organically abstract compositions. My 2015 limited edition of prints of digital paintings, entitled Almonte's Mississippi: Points of View, present rendered interpretations of iconic Almonte riverscapes before the banks and flow of the river were 'disrupted' by a new power plant. The series Paint, Paper and Flotsam is a playful, yet sobering collection of small paintings on panel, found plastic constructions, and a folded paper wall installation, all inspired by found plastic.  

In completing one series and starting another, I give myself permission to grow and change. Visual elements or ‘threads’ are carried from one work into the next on a continuum. Trusting the process is something I have to re-learn all the time. It’s the only way I can truly explore something while pushing the limits of my own visual vocabulary.

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