I came to Canada over sixty years ago and fell in love with its people, landscape and lakes. I had a short career in pottery and drawing, being mostly self-taught. I have had a passion for art and nature since a young age, however it wouldn’t be until much later in life that I would get to fully explore my love of the outdoors and portraying what I see on canvas. Teaching myself different art techniques in my free time over the years, it wasn’t until retiring, that I have been able to devote myself full time to art.
Upon retirement, I attended Haliburton School of Art for a ceramic course to explore further sculpting and throwing. I now also sculpt into clay tiles to feel the landscape with my hands. I am a member of the SCA, ECOAA, PRAC and the artist co-operative A Place For The Arts and have been showing my work there as well as in the Art Gallery of Bancroft, where I did win a first in a juried show.
I am enjoying living closer to nature and photographing trees and creatures in varying lighting. Complex shapes within the landscape have become a direction for me to explore as the tangled forests have drawn my eye into their almost abstraction. I want to further try painting in plein air and perhaps abstract studies involving contrasts and shapes of the woods and reflections around the lakeshore. Combining different mediums and textures will be a focus as I attempt to layer shapes, shadows and transparencies I see in the shallow water around tree roots and plant life in lake Weslemkoon, where I am fortunate enough to have my studio.
Painting this wilderness and its ecological fragility is a challenge I welcome, hoping to continue to diversify and tell more than just the story of the landscape. I want my work to show the delicate balance between humans and the animals that share their environment with us.
Upon retirement, I attended Haliburton School of Art for a ceramic course to explore further sculpting and throwing. I now also sculpt into clay tiles to feel the landscape with my hands. I am a member of the SCA, ECOAA, PRAC and the artist co-operative A Place For The Arts and have been showing my work there as well as in the Art Gallery of Bancroft, where I did win a first in a juried show.
I am enjoying living closer to nature and photographing trees and creatures in varying lighting. Complex shapes within the landscape have become a direction for me to explore as the tangled forests have drawn my eye into their almost abstraction. I want to further try painting in plein air and perhaps abstract studies involving contrasts and shapes of the woods and reflections around the lakeshore. Combining different mediums and textures will be a focus as I attempt to layer shapes, shadows and transparencies I see in the shallow water around tree roots and plant life in lake Weslemkoon, where I am fortunate enough to have my studio.
Painting this wilderness and its ecological fragility is a challenge I welcome, hoping to continue to diversify and tell more than just the story of the landscape. I want my work to show the delicate balance between humans and the animals that share their environment with us.
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Like what you see? Email me and let's connect.
Like what you see? Email me and let's connect.
Edge of Winter, Oil, 10x30
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I donate pet portraits to friends whose pets pass on as I love drawing or painting animals . I only ask for donations to OTCC or Durham Humane Society depending on where they live.
Autumn Twilight, Gouache, 9x12
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