Portfolio

These paintings explore the possibilities of colour, texture, and form through the use of oil and acrylic. Grounded in an interest in process and material, the work reflects an ongoing investigation into how visual language can convey emotion, memory, and transformation.

This collection spans painting and drawing in a variety of media, including oil, acrylic, charcoal, and graphite. Across all works, the focus is on exploring process, material, and expressive potential.

The pieces investigate themes such as memory, transformation, and observation, while remaining open to interpretation. Whether through layered paint or precise drawing, the work emphasizes the dialogue between control and intuition, material and concept, offering viewers insight into both the creative process and the emotional resonance of the work.

Charcoal, ink and paint.

Self-Portraits, reimagines personal history by removing the artist’s image from childhood photographs and replacing it with her childhood stuffed animal.

Through this process, the series explores how memory, identity, and attachment evolve over time. The stuffed animal acts as an emotional stand-in — a tender surrogate for the artist’s younger self — occupying spaces once filled by the body. The result is both nostalgic and uncanny, reflecting the way personal history can be both comforting and elusive.

This series of landscape paintings reflects a shared love of the natural world between father and daughter. The artist draws inspiration from the Foothills, as well as her late father’s underwater photography, honoring his memory and their mutual connection to landscape. The work explores both the beauty of the natural environment and the enduring emotional bond between parent and child, capturing moments of reflection, loss, and remembrance.

This series uses fruit as a metaphor to explore the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. The paintings examine the gradual decay and transformation of the brain, using ripening, bruising, and decomposition of fruit to reflect the fragility of memory and identity. The works convey the slow erosion of cognition while also acknowledging moments of beauty and resilience, offering a contemplative reflection on the effects of the disease.

A series of eight landscapes created with oil stick, charcoal, and conte on mixed media paper and vellum. The works are presented in two formats: 24" x 18" and 17" x 11", exploring texture, line, and atmosphere through layered mark-making across each surface.

This series comprises 42 landscape studies rendered in ink on 5" x 3" index cards. Each small-scale work captures a fleeting moment in time, drawn from the artist’s travels, family walks, or instances of inspiration found in the natural landscape. Together, the studies create an intimate exploration of place, memory, and the subtle beauty of everyday environments.

A series of eight acrylic paintings on assorted sizes of cardboard. Each work explores the expressive possibilities of paint through experimental mark-making, compositional studies, and the use of varied colour palettes. The series investigates how different combinations of colour, contrast, and tone can evoke mood, depth, and emotional resonance.

A series of 4" x 4" acrylic paintings documenting the daily growth and development of robins. Each small-scale work captures moments of change and observation, reflecting the artist’s attention to the rhythms of nature and the passage of time.

A series of ten 6" x 6" oil paintings exploring the transformation of an apple, a candle, and a cup of coffee over a nine-hour period. Each painting captures subtle changes in form, colour, and texture, reflecting the passage of time and the natural processes of aging and decay. The series examines the fleeting nature of everyday objects and invites viewers to consider time, impermanence, and observation in the still life tradition.