I love to create. 

Painting, drawing, writing poetry, making music. Creating spaces to stimulate your mind. 

I’ve always loved to make marks. When i was 6 years old, I ran up and down the stairs and halls of our six floor apartment building with my younger sister drawing with crayons as we ran. We got caught. Our mother made us go up and down those halls and walls with a bucket of soap and wash every mark off them. When we were finished, we returned to our apartment to find the walls there covered with paper as high as we could reach. Mom said “You want to draw on walls?  You can draw as much as you want here.” 

I have been making marks ever since. 

Always creating. One way or another. Giving to the world little pieces of myself to leave behind long after I cannot create anymore. 

These are testaments to me having lived a life. My children.

These are moments I’ve witnessed and captured.

My Work can be found as part of private collections throughout Canada and Ireland.

I love to explore. 

Every once in a magical while, I hear a niggling voice inside me say… “Stop! Look! There is something there”. 

As quickly as I can, I will take a photo, write a phrase or do a sketch that will remind me of that precise moment.  

Then begins the dance. Making marks. Reacting to that inspired moment without care for accuracy. Honestly as I can, letting my inner Artist make the marks while me, the viewer, is trying to discover why each  mark was made. Exploring with the color that puts its hand up and screams," use me!”. 

 This is when the painting starts to get its voice. I listen to what i see. I hear what next mark will be made. These tell me what special moment is happening, what moment is being captured. I can then focus color and light to achieve the exact mood the painting wants. I create imbalance leaving areas under developed and others highly detailed to cause someone to ask a question, to take time, look to see the hidden or not so obvious, where I have left space for you to find what's missing. The painting and I dance, evolving to the point where I look at the canvas and can say “ There you are!” 

Climb in to these impressions. Wander around inside and discover the motion of color and stroke to feel what i wanted, captured.