Artist Statement
My work is a response to an ever increasing blooming, buzzing confusion that is a hallmark of contemporary life. There I maintain an old-fashioned love affair with paint. Oil paint. In communion with the seasons, the physical landscape in which I stand and the interior landscapes of my life I make sense of the world and my place in it.
​From my Keswick Ridge, New Brunswick studio my paintings are significantly shaped by the tall windows that frame vast views of the Wolostoq, Saint John River valley, and the wild worlds just on the other side of the glass. Poetic and political, I paint to subvert the effects a modernist disregard for beauty and nature has had upon individuals, society, and the environment.
Years of ritually working with a primary palette and its infinite possibilities, colour opens onto generous skies and branches bent in prayer. In the swish of windy transparent washes or squeezed into layered shadows that create depth and mystery. In every brushstroke there is the possibility of multiple meanings summoning body, mind and spirit. Between representation and abstraction, the actual and symbolic wherever the viewer takes their visual rest, landscape becomes metaphor.