Untitled (1), 2019, 18x18, acrylic and ink on canvas
I have been a practicing artist for four decades and see my current work as the realization of a third phase of my evolution.
My early work (1980-2000) was supported by Canada Council grants that allowed me to explore my voice and develop my language and technical sensibility. The work evolved into large abstract flat surface works, with a few excursions into video and narrative formats along the way.
Moving to Atlanta 2000/2001, whether because of nostalgia or a sense of opportunity, I started a new body of mixed-media work centered on (culturally significant) Canadian Hudson's Bay blankets, working mostly figuratively.
Around 2010 I felt these “blanket works” had run their course and I returned to the original media of painting and drawing. The work has evolved here into abstract work that explores shifting perspectives of space, color, shapes, and line. Formal, abstract and (hopefully) emotionally engaging as well.