SEASONS PATTERNS SERIES
This series celebrates the connection between ourselves and nature; the benefits of including natural systems as we shape spaces around us. Organic forms meet urban landscapes through silhouettes, flattened colour fields and emphasized details separated from the whole. They explore our desire to control and reshape nature, and the contrasts between the organic and the artificial. This style loosely references botanical images in Japanese sumi-e ink and wash paintings, ukiyo-e woodblock prints, and the design and purpose of Japanese gardens, providing a sense of the exotic while playing with distinctly Canadian subjects.

FIGURATIVE SERIES
I am intrigued by the choices of how an image is composed and what the focus is. I want my viewers to think about what is left out of the frame as much as what is found within it.

The pieces are often playful, but also describe layers of knowledge of ourselves and the people around us, and ask the viewers to consider their own physical forms – functional pieces often taken for granted. There can also be an emotional weight when a person is reduced to parts of a whole, particularly in a busy society as more people migrate to cities and are surrounded by others but have little time or opportunities to seek more than a first impression.

Many of my pieces offer tiny bits of a story – threads left unfinished for a viewer to weave themselves and their own experiences into the narrative.