Artist Statement

I am a Fine Arts Printmaking graduate from NSCAD University in Halifax.

I grew up in the suburbs near Johannesburg, South Africa. My travels in Africa and Europe landed me on Nova Scotia’s shores in 1976 on a brilliant fall day.

After graduating from NSCAD in 1983, I moved with my husband and young family to Chester.

Windblown fields, shifting hues of ocean and sky, seasons unfurling, vernacular architecture was the world I painted in pastel, and exhibited for the next twenty-five years.

I began to paint with acrylics during Covid. No interruptions allowed for endless days of painting and 3 solo exhibitions in as many years. The last one, Kinship, included figures in the landscape that spoke of relationships between generations, couples, and friends. I am at a stage of life where memories are outgrowing my time on this planet.

Recent work continues with the figure, exploring new to me materials. I am dropping the reigns of a narrative in favour of allowing the figures to find their own rhythm through space on the canvas.

My work has found homes in Canada, USA, the Caribbean and Europe.

Biography

2024

Attended Abstract Workshop by Wayne Boucher
Hosted 85th Chester Garden Club Exhibition
Gallery artists increased, hung the art work/wrote the gallery newsletter
Second gallery expansion
Opened Art Studio for Chester Art Centre programs

2023

KINSHIP solo exhibition
Commissioned Paintings
Attended En Plein Air workshop by Marc Grandbois
Arranged solo and group exhibitions for visiting artists
Wrote gallery newsletter
Donated a painting to Chester Playhouse
3 mini paintings to Chester Art Centre fundraiser
Hosted Celebration of Trees fundraiser for Chester Lighthouse Foodbank

2022

Commissions work
Gallery expansion
Arranged solo and group exhibitions for visiting artists
Wrote the gallery newsletter
Hosted Celebration of Trees fundraiser for Chester Lighthouse Foodbank