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 its beauty and fragility. 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.”

Formerly a corporate lawyer in Vancouver, I now weave that landscape, my love for 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.

I donate 50% of my art sales to nature-focused organizations listed under My Mission.