Paintings GalleryMy paintings are landscapes of introspection: open spaces offer visual and mental respite, while areas of visual complexity reflect internal complexities. The layers in my paintings often contain details that are eventually covered up, details that enrich the beauty and history of the surfaces; it could be drawings and mark-making, or bits of writing, like a stream of consciousness, a song lyric from music listened to while working, or a favourite word or quote.
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The beauty of surfaces built up and worn down by the markings of time, the layers, the stories, the underground network of interconnection; trees who support and communicate with one another underground. The timeless rich tapestry of it all.
20” x 30”, Acrylic and oil, molding medium, wc crayon, graphite, cotton thread, original photographic transfer on canvas stretched canvas. (Wired for hanging).
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Leaving behind the dense, chaotic, towering city and the vista slowly opens up, the grand expanse of it all, the open fields, the open sky, the expansion… space to breathe.
20” x 20”, Acrylic and oil, found metal, original photographic transfer on wood panel. (Wired for hanging).
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Doors and ladders, thresholds, transitions, the dynamic shifting of life. The aliveness of movement.
7.5” x 7.5”, Acrylic, graphite, pencil crayon, found & altered papers. collaged onto 300lb watercolour paper, mounted on wood panel. (Resin surface, wired for hanging).
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Puddle Series — An invitation for slowing down, simplifying — for pausing and noticing. Celebrating the visual interplay of opacity and transparency, the flow of water, and its play of unexpected movement and settling. The honouring, restful nature of white space and its beautiful power to contrast with form.
20”x30”, Acrylic paint, WC crayon, graphite on gallery-wrapped stretch canvas, light grey floating frame. (Wired for hanging).
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7.5” x 6”, Encaustic on wood panel, pan pastels, oil paint. (8.75” x 7” with custom grey floating frame, wired for hanging).
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The building up of layers to a whole, hidden wisdoms. The nostalgia of childhood whimsy, kite strings in the wind, movement and play. All that came before as a foundation for what is new.
18” x 24”, Acrylic paint, collaged found and altered papers, pencil crayon, graphite, textiles, hanging threads, ribbon trim, acetate photograph on wood panel. (Wired for hanging).
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The honouring of cycles, of the ebb and the flow of life. After ‘winter’, after rest, after loss — the celebration that is REGENERATION.
“I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time.” — Joseph Beuys
12” x 24”, Acrylic and oil paint, pencil crayon, graphite, textiles, hanging threads, ribbon trim, found rusty screws, photographic image-transfer on wood panel. (Wired for hanging).
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The bottom of everything, holding it all. Grounded. A foundation rooted, the growing up and growing down, simultaneously directionality. Held below and held above.
10” x 12”, acrylic and oil, graphite, molding medium and original photographic transfer on stretched canvas. (11”x13” with black floating frame, wired for hanging).
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As the saying goes, we are all a work in progress, incomplete and yet whole, perfectly imperfect — honouring the messy beauty of process.
8” x 8”, acrylic, original photographic transfer, thread stitching, molding medium on stretched canvas. (9.5” x 9.5” with black floating frame, wired for hanging).
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The poignant beauty of the ways in which our stories have created texture, scars and layers within us. A sense of the parts of us that can feel fixed and set and the parts that still have movement and play.
12” x 24”, Acrylic paint, collaged found and altered papers, pencil crayon, graphite, textiles, hanging threads, ribbon trim, acetate photograph on wood panel. (Wired for hanging).
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In every moment, it is a choice.
6” x 6”, acrylic and original photographic transfer on wood panel. (7” x 7” with custom grey floating frame, wired for hanging).
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As the saying goes, we are all a work in progress, incomplete and yet whole, perfectly imperfect — honouring the messy beauty of process.
8” x 8”, acrylic, original photographic transfer, thread stitching, molding medium on stretched canvas. (9.5” x 9.5” with black floating frame, wired for hanging).
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Growing into existence from a rich foundation.
11” x 14”, Acrylic, cotton thread, paper, graphite, wc crayon, original photographic transfer on stretched canvas,. (12” x 15” with black floating frame, wired for hanging).
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The visual sensation of fields rushing by from the car window. A day of collecting the release of movement, contrasted by a still treeline. Movement and stillness. Grounded Momentum.
16” x 20”, Acrylic and oil on wood panel, plexiglas photograph, brass chicago bolts, spacers. (Plexiglas overlay sits 1” above the painting, casting a shadow, painting is wired for hanging).
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Mending at sunrise. Stich by stitch, Always a new day. A clearing.
24” x 30”, Acrylic, cotton thread/stitching, pumice medium, graphite, original photographic transfer on stretched canvas. (Custom grey floating frame, wired for hanging).
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Holding both here and there. Both/And.
6” x 6”, Acrylic, graphite, wc crayon, original photographic image transfer on wood panel. (Resin surface, 7” x 7” custom grey floating frame, wired for hanging).
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The situating of place. The presence and the distance. Holding both. T/here.
6” x 6”, mixed media on wood panel (Custom grey floating frame, wired for hanging).
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The beauty of our ever-changing internal weather systems,
The rain, the gusts, the storms, the fog,
the sun breaking through the clouds,
the light, the movement, the flow of it all.
Holding it all.
12” x 12”, Acrylic, mixed media on stretched canvas. (13”x 13” with black floating frame, wired for hanging).
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Rainy day walks - the air full, holding so much. Boots, coat, umbrella donned, curious eyes scanning for magic.
6” x 6”, photo encaustic on wood panel, watercolour crayons, pan pastels. (Custom grey floating frame, wired for hanging).
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Vibrating, dynamic, alive
8” x 8”, Acrylic and mixed media on wood panel, resin. (9”x9” with black floating frame, wired for hanging).
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Mixed media on panel (framed)
24.5"x24.5