My Story

A woman with shoulder-length gray hair smiling outdoors next to an abstract painting on a canvas, with greenery in the background.

Through abstraction, I honour the natural world and give visual voice to what is at risk of being lost. I grew up beside a uranium mine a few miles south of the northwest territories in a landscape vast and uncompromising - one that stirred the imagination of A.Y. Jackson and continues to shape my own, including my passion for protecting the environment. To document that land, I wrote an award-winning book called “Sun Dogs and Yellowcake: Gunnar Mines, A Canadian Story.”

Today, I unite that landscape, the ocean from years spent sailing the Gulf Islands and offshore waters, and my deep devotion to creating wildlife gardens into my artistic practice.

These experiences - land, sea, and stewardship quietly but powerfully inform how I see, interpret, and translate the natural world.