Artist Statement

I create large expressive abstract paintings in my studio south of Vancouver, close to the Salish Sea. My emotional relationship with the natural world plays a central role in my work as I reinterpret the colours, rhythms, organic forms, and light of ocean waters I have sailed, wildlife gardens I have created, and the rugged territory of northern Canada where I grew up.

Using free-flowing brushstrokes, multiple layers, a wide-ranging palette, and distinctive mark-making, I seek to portray the feeling of being in nature. In my practice, I honour the environment through careful use of materials and by minimizing waste.

I allow each painting to reveal itself gradually, as an unfolding conversation between curiosity, discovery, and paint. I hope my work offers viewers a renewed sense of connection with the living world that sustains us, and a deeper recognition of its value.

As part of my commitment, fifty percent of my art sales are donated to the Canadian nature organizations listed below.

The Nature Trust of British Columbia is dedicated to conserving BC’s biological diversity through acquisition and management of ecologically significant lands. Since 1971 it has acquired more than 500 conservation properties in British Columbia.

Raincoast Conservation Foundation uses science and research to safeguard coastal BC by focusing on maintaining healthy waterways, ocean, rainforest, coastal forests, wolves, salmon and whales.

Pacific Salmon Foundation engages in multiple projects to protect West Coast salmon from the effects of climate change in participation with First Nations.

Georgia Strait Alliance protects and restores the Georgia Strait, its adjoining waters, and communities, with a focus on saving the southern resident killer whale (orcas) and Pacific salmon.