My intention as an artist is to offer balance in an often chaotic world, lending space to both the negative and positive.

Following an education in modern history, I pursued an extensive career in journalism, focusing on critical issues such as poverty, health and immigration. Journalism is a craft that requires empathy, compassion and holding power to account, especially when confronting the negative forces of injustice and inequality. It also involves the creative ability to observe, record, analyze and share that information with the world. 

Against this backdrop, I have taken to expanding my skills into something that feels more positive. I believe it is through art — be it music, literature, theatre, architecture or painting — that we find new meaning, perspective, communication and a reason for hope. 

I use my artistic work to keep me grounded, but my process is one of an exploratory nature. My abstract compositions in acrylic, mixed media or digital often involve layering or ‘windows’ to under-layers, a reflection of my ongoing interest in past and future. I spend a lot of time painting and repainting, adding and erasing, trying to keep to a certain process and structure while also welcoming a collision of accidents. 

Creative work requires focus, but it also allows freedom to explore. When the unforeseen shows up, there is an opportunity to welcome it and see where the work needs to go.

My paintings span more than a single characteristic style, but typically involve a display of warm hues. Even when I try to work in soft neutrals I end up with vivid colour or bold strokes. I am simply drawn to finding a path that stays positive and upbeat, to produce work that has life and good energy. 

My influences are many, beginning with my artist mother, who never painted from a photograph and whose loose and free-form drawings and paintings formed a lasting impression. She was not a stickler for detail. Nowadays, I draw my pleasures and inspiration from art, music, literature, urban space, astrophysics (as in time and space), sports and outside play.