My artwork is a tactile journey of discovery, where layers of meaning and texture are revealed through a deliberate process of mark making and surface explorations.  As a Hamilton-based artist and educator, I aim to bring a varied perspective to the intersection of nature and urban environments, distilling the essence of these spaces into intricate patterns and forms. 

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Through a combination of scraping, uncovering, and revealing, my mixed media pieces expose hidden narratives.  I make layered abstract paintings from the geometry that cities leave behind.  Cracked pavement, architectural forms, scaffolding grids - the shapes we walk past every day...integrating elements of nature through new growth and decay.  Ideas of impermanence, fracture, distortion and imperfection all play in a role in the abstract process for me. 

Using mixed media, I rebuild those fragment into new compositions.  The work is about how urban spaces are broken, repaired, and used again.  It's Hamilton, but it's also any city that won't sit still.

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A Little Bit About Me ......

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With a background in Art and Art History from McMaster University, and a B. Education from Queen's University, my work reflects a search for art's power to reveal the extraordinary in the everyday.  As an artist, my hope is to invite the viewer to slow down and appreciate the intricate web of textures, colours and stories that comprise our world, and to find their own place within the ever-evolving landscape of art and life. 

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You can find me most days at the Cotton Factory in Hamilton, Ontario working in my studio in Sharespace 2.0.

I've  been an arts educator for many years - long enough to know that a four-year tracing a shadow asks the same questions I do:  What is this shape? Can I change it? What happens if I look again?  The classroom and the studio are not separate.  Both are places to rebuild what we notice.

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