I have been painting and exhibiting my work in both public and private galleries for over twenty-five years. My work in watercolor on paper and acrylic on canvas is included in private, corporate and public collections in Canada, the U.S, Mexico and Europe.
My primary inspiration has always been the natural world. I moved to Saturna Island in the Southern Gulf Islands in British Columbia to paint the particular landscape of the eroded sandstone shoreline. In the course of this work I experimented with materials, scale and color to explore the concept and experience of a sense of place.
Drawn by the desire to use more color in my work, I began to paint the flowers from my garden. In this series, I continue to work in the style I developed for the stones, using many thin layers of paint to create the feeling of light emanating from with the subject itself.