ABOUT

Day to day existence is elusive in nature, I never know how my body will function from one moment to another. Moments come and go as they wish like a honey bee randomly pollenating newly grown flowers. My reality is brief periods of time, this is what I know and I have learned how to live within them. I have become interested in capturing the essence of the elusive in relationship to my reality through paintings.

Over the past few years, I have been learning how to live in and appreciate what I experience within brief moments which has taught me how to see my small world. I often find myself within an elusive moment absorbed observing with such fulfillment lasting only a matter of seconds of time. Left with an essence and boldly vivid visual memories, this has become the reality of my life and art.

Within this time of my life, I have been on a deeply creative journey using the medium of paint. Being immersed within these experiences has become a reality and daily existence. Experiences that can be difficult to understand or define, an elusive moment comes to me, is observed and recorded. Beginning with a boldly vivid visual memory recorded with my camera that is written in my journal descriptively. Given time the essence of the elusive experience is visually captured through paint on wood panel, representing my unique reality. 

Time and time again white paint emerges as a reoccurring motif in my work. For a long time the meaning of using white sections of paint eluded me and then it was as clear as can be like looking at my reflection in a mirror. It represents elusive energy in my paintings, elusive meaning difficult to find, define, or achieve the use of white represents the elusive impeccably. In my current body of work, white traps the bottom of each composition, not unlike the the virus trapped within me. The daily elusiveness of energy is represented through white, always in control of me from within yet invisible. 

Writing in my journal descriptively recalling through words these moment is important to my practice. It helps me to create a painting once I have applied words to depict the elusive experience. All my writing is typed out on my 1950’s Royal typewriter and used typographically in my paintings. The written record helps me because over time that passes between moments and paintings much can be lost. When I begin a painting I have the written piece to guide my composition.

Acceptance has been important to my life now and I have accepted that my reality there is much that is elusive. I have also accepted that there is no defining point separating my art and life, they are one and the same. I live to paint and paint to live, when unable to paint I rest to get back into my studio to paint. This has in return developed an interest in capturing the essence of the elusive in moments. In time the essence of the elusive experience is visually captured through paint on wood panel, representing my unique reality in my small world. 

My paintings are placed in private collections and I have shown in local juried group shows over the past few years. I live and work in Toronto’s midtown neighbourhood of Leaside with her artist husband and our English bull terriers.