I have been painting and exhibiting my work in both public
and private galleries for over twenty years. My work in watercolour
on paper and acrylic on canvas is included in private, corporate and
public collections in Canada and in private collections in the U.S.
and Europe.
My primary inspiration and fascination as an artist has
always been the natural world. I moved to Saturna Island, Canada to
paint the particular landscape of the eroded sandstone shoreline and
over the next several years I traveled the West Coast discovering
and painting variations of the sinuous, waveworn stone. In the course
of this work, I experimented with materials, point of view, scale
and color to explore the ideas and experiences of being in the natural
world.
Drawn by the desire to use more color in my work, I began
to paint flowers from my garden. In this series, I continued to work
in the style I developed for the stones, using many thin layers of
paint to create the feeling of light emanating from within the object
itself, while choosing an exaggerated scale and close up point of
view to create a sense of being in the flowers themselves.
My new series of work builds on these themes and working
methods while drawing on my experience of living in the San Jose del
Cabo, Mexico, area. Here the flowers are tropical and are so flamboyant,
so lush that I enlarged the scale of my work, the brightness of my
palette in order to paint them the way I see them.
It is my hope that you will enjoy being enveloped in the
silky petals of my new tropical flowers and experience their beauty
as your own.
