Artist’s Statement
My attraction is most definitely the play of light and movement in our natural environment. I am not attracted to ‘landscapes’ or ‘pretty scenes’. It’s the flash of colour and texture in a fleeting moment that gets my blood rushing.
While unfettered forests are my muse the subject has come to be the paint itself. The surface tension created with drippy transparent passages sliced with heavy opaque brush strokes as well as hits of light where the brush barely touches the surface and calligraphic mark-making. All lending itself to more abstraction than actual place.
My interest is the landscape, emphasizing the energy of the space as a whole. I paint it as I feel it – not as a physical likeness, but as an entire presence, involving the space of emotion, spirituality, temperature and the senses.
I find I am inspired by the friction and play of textures where surface planes meet. The tangled under growth competing for light and space. A play of forces, where colour and temperature meld or clash for dominance - a battle of the elements, Earth, Sky, Water and all they encompass. I believe an Artist interprets best what they know intimately…what surrounds them personally and they touch daily… what influences on a deep emotional level either conscious or unconscious. For me this is the untouched Ontario landscape… tangled, unfettered and unfinished…a work in progress, constantly growing and striving towards light, strength and freedom from constraint.
Using traditional oils, I work quickly and vigorously, laying in several layers of transparent colour and value using large dynamic brushstrokes combined with splatter and drip , these layers are each reworked with opaque brushwork and calligraphy as I attempt to portray what first excited me about the subject, the flash causing the rush of Adrenalin and the urge to ‘get it down’ before the feeling dissipates.
I prefer to work in large format where I can apply movement and gesture to express the intense vitality and power I experience in the landscape. I want the viewer to experience the moment as if they are standing there with me.
My attraction is most definitely the play of light and movement in our natural environment. I am not attracted to ‘landscapes’ or ‘pretty scenes’. It’s the flash of colour and texture in a fleeting moment that gets my blood rushing.
While unfettered forests are my muse the subject has come to be the paint itself. The surface tension created with drippy transparent passages sliced with heavy opaque brush strokes as well as hits of light where the brush barely touches the surface and calligraphic mark-making. All lending itself to more abstraction than actual place.
My interest is the landscape, emphasizing the energy of the space as a whole. I paint it as I feel it – not as a physical likeness, but as an entire presence, involving the space of emotion, spirituality, temperature and the senses.
I find I am inspired by the friction and play of textures where surface planes meet. The tangled under growth competing for light and space. A play of forces, where colour and temperature meld or clash for dominance - a battle of the elements, Earth, Sky, Water and all they encompass. I believe an Artist interprets best what they know intimately…what surrounds them personally and they touch daily… what influences on a deep emotional level either conscious or unconscious. For me this is the untouched Ontario landscape… tangled, unfettered and unfinished…a work in progress, constantly growing and striving towards light, strength and freedom from constraint.
Using traditional oils, I work quickly and vigorously, laying in several layers of transparent colour and value using large dynamic brushstrokes combined with splatter and drip , these layers are each reworked with opaque brushwork and calligraphy as I attempt to portray what first excited me about the subject, the flash causing the rush of Adrenalin and the urge to ‘get it down’ before the feeling dissipates.
I prefer to work in large format where I can apply movement and gesture to express the intense vitality and power I experience in the landscape. I want the viewer to experience the moment as if they are standing there with me.
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
Graduate of Loretto Abbey, Toronto ON.
Self Taught Artist, Various Artists
Workshops
JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2025
Ontario Society of Artists Members Exhibition
2024 Federation of Canadian Artists Artist’s Choice Exhibition Letters to the Earth -between despair and hope – Georgina Art Gallery Society of Canadian Artists Open National Online Juried Exhibition Federation of Canadian Artists Signature Exhibition Federation of Canadian Artists Toronto Chapter A Slice of Life Exhibition East Central Ontario Art Association Annual Juried Exhibition Letters to the Earth -between despair and hope – Station Gallery
2023 Letters to the Earth -between despair and hope – Aurora cultural centre Society of Canadian Artists Open National Online Juried Exhibition The South Delta Artists Guild Annual Oil & Water Exhibition – First Prize East Central Ontario Art Association Annual Juried Exhibition- Dora Purdon Award for Best Oil Federation of Canadian Artists Limitless Exhibition
2022
East Central Ontario Art Association Annual Juried Exhibition- Dora Purdon Award for Best Oil
Society of Canadian Artists Open National Online Juried Exhibition
Ontario Society of Artists Conversations, OMAH
Ontario Society of Artists, 150 Show, The Lieutenant Governor’s Suite at Queens Park, Toronto
Paint Ontario
Federation of Canadian Artists Toronto Chapter Summer Pleasures Exhibition
2021
Federation of Canadian Artists Signature Exhibition – Silver medal for ‘Something that is red’
Federation of Canadian Artists Toronto Chapter Spring Forward Online Exhibition – 3rd place award
Federation of Canadian Artists Abstract Exhibition
East Central Ontario Art Association Annual Juried Exhibition – Gary Chapman award
Paint Ontario – second place plein air award
Ontario Society of Artists Members Exhibition
2020
Arts & Letters Club of Toronto N3xt
Paint Ontario – Sponsor Award
Federation of Canadian Artists Success! Exhibition as SFCA
Society of Canadian Artists Members Online Juried Exhibition – ‘On the quiet side’ award of merit
Federation of Canadian Artists Painting on the Edge Exhibition
Federation of Canadian Artists Landscapes Exhibition
Federation of Canadian Artists Active Members Exhibition
Federation of Canadian Artists Artist’s Choice Exhibition
Society of Canadian Artists Open National Online Juried Exhibition
2019
Society of Canadian Artists Open National Online Juried Exhibition
Ontario Society of Artists Eastern Hub, ‘Peripheral Visions’, Agnes Jamieson Gallery, Minden
Oshawa Art Association Juried Exhibition, Robert McLaughlin Gallery – It’s all Relative – Bronze Award
Federation of Canadian Artists Landscape Exhibition
Federation of Canadian Artists Shape and From Exhibition
Pineridge Art Council Annual Juried Exhibition – All that Jazz– Enbridge Pipelines Inc. Award
2018
Federation of Canadian Artists Active Members Exhibition
Federation of Canadian Artists ‘Artists Choice’ Exhibition – Third Prize ‘Leap of Faith’
Federation of Canadian Artists Abstracted Exhibition
Society of Canadian Artists National Online Juried Exhibition
Oshawa Art Association Juried Exhibition, Robert McLaughlin Gallery – Pacific Gravity – Award of recognition
Colborne Art Gallery Annual Juried Exhibition
Society of Canadian Artists Members Online Juried Exhibition
Society of Canadian Artists Open National Juried Exhibition
2017
Ontario Society of Artists Members Exhibition of Selected Works
Society of Canadian Artists National Online Juried Exhibition
Ontario Society of Artists MOSAIC Exhibition, Aurora Cultural Centre
Oshawa Art Association 50th Anniversary Juried Exhibition, Robert McLaughlin Gallery
East Central Ontario Art Association Annual Juried Exhibition – Dora Purdon Award for Best Oil
Society of Canadian Artists 49th International Open Juried Exhibition
2016
East Central Ontario Art Association Annual Juried Exhibition – Dora Purdon Award for Best Oil
Society of Canadian Artists National Online Juried Exhibition
Colour and Form Society Biennial Open Juried Exhibition
OSA Member Exhibition of Selected Works
2015
Ontario Society of Artists Annual Members Exhibition
Society of Canadian Artists Annual Members exhibition
East Central Ontario Art Association Annual Algonquin Park Show, Second Place
2014
Ontario Society of Artists Annual Members Exhibition
Society of Canadian Artists Annual Members Exhibition , Antoinette Stevens Award for best painting
East Central Ontario Art Association Annual Juried Exhibition – Honourable Mention
2013
Ontario Society of Artists Annual Members Exhibition
Ontario Society of Artists Exhibition ‘Continuum’ ..Arts & Letters Club, Toronto
East Central Ontario Art Association Annual Juried Exhibition – Honourable Mention
Carmichael Canadian Landscape Exhibition -Orillia Museum of Art & History
2012
Ontario Society of Artists Annual Members Exhibition
Society of Canadian Artists 44th Open National Juried Exhibition
A Brush with the Highlands Plein Air Festival Juried Show – Dorset Tower Award and Juror’s Choice
2011
East Central Ontario Art Association Annual Juried Exhibition – Dora Purdon Award
A Brush with the Highlands Plein Air Festival Juried Show - The Hawk River Log Chute Award and The Environmental Narrative Award
2009
McMichael Canadian Art Collection Autumn Art Show & Sale
2007
East Central Ontario Art Association Annual Algonquin Park Show
2006
Society of Canadian Artists Annual Members Juried show
2005
Scarborough Arts Council Juried Show ‘Fragments’
East Central Ontario Art Association Annual Algonquin Park Show
2004
Society of Canadian Artists Annual National Open Juried Show
Colour & Form Society Annual Juried Show
East Central Ontario Art Association Annual Algonquin Park Show
East Central Ontario Art Association Annual Juried Exhibition – Rose Baker award
2003
Scarborough Arts Council juried show ‘Elements’
East Central Ontario Art Association Annual Algonquin Park Show
2002
East Central Ontario Art Association Annual Algonquin Park Show
Georgina Arts Centre and Gallery Viewers Choice Veni Vidi Art Gallery, Port Perry ON “Nudes”
Uxbridge Celebration of the Arts Annual Juried Show
2001
East Central Ontario Art Association Annual Algonquin Park Show – 1st prize.
East Central Ontario Art Association Annual Juried Exhibition
Georgina Arts Centre and Gallery Viewers Choice – 1st prize floral – 3rd prize landscape
Orillia Museum of Art and History ‘Blooming Art’
2000
Orillia Museum of Art and History- ‘Blooming Art’
Veni Vidi Art Gallery, Port Perry ON -‘Oil & Water- Portraits’
Uxbridge Celebration of the Arts Annual Juried Show
SELECT PAST JURIED GROUP SHOWS
Toronto Artist Project
Toronto Art Expo
Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition
Cabbagetown Art & Craft Festival
Rideau Valley Art Festival
Ottawa Art Expo
AFFILIATIONS
Society of Canadian Artists- Elected member (SCA)
Ontario Society of Artists – Elected member (OSA) - current VP
Federation of Canadian Artists – Senior Signature Status (SFCA)
East Central Ontario Art Association (ECOAA) –Past President, Past Fall workshop coordinator, website design & management, Membership Chair and Past Newsletter editor.
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Province of Ontario Archival Collection
Hospitals of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP)
Gottschalk Forensic Accounting & Valuations Inc., Toronto, ON
Fredenberg & Gullette Attorney, Phoenix, AZ
Dr. Shawn Moore Optometrist, Orillia, ON
RCIM Family Law, Calgary, AB
Henderson Partners LLP, Oakville, ON
RBC, Toronto, ON
Mark Motors of Ottawa
MEDIA
HGTV Candice Tells All
HGTV Income property Film Production:
Pixels, CityTV Steven & Chris, HGTV Property Brothers
Urbandale Construction, promotion of Allora condominiums, Ottawa ON
PUBILCATIONS
Art Gallery of Ontario – AGO Insider featuring ‘ Light Interrupted’ from ‘Conversations’ at the OMAH
Author of Beyond the Easel – Professional Development for Visual Artists www.beyondtheeasel.com
Pratique des Arts, Edition 163, France – Feature Interview
https://lfpress.com/entertainment/local-arts/artists-explore-unseen-aspects-of-wilderness-at-london-gallery
http://m.mykawartha.com/news-story/5765553-lindsay-gallery-hosting-double-vision-exhibit
Bancroft THIS WEEK - July 15, 2015 -Riding the Elephant (Lake Road) with Sheila Davis http://www.bancroftthisweek.com/?p=4759
Brock Citizen April 22, 1997 News of Georgina Arts Centre
Brock Citizen April 5, 2002 Library Exhibition
V. Krause Nurseries, Fruit Catalogue 2001, cover image
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Juror – 2020 Society of Canadian Artists Open International Exhibition
Group mentoring with the Federation of Canadian Artists
Sage mentor (art business end) with Mastrius
FCA jury duties
OSA jury duties
INSTRUCTION & DEMONSTRATIONS
Beyond the Easel – weekend workshop in professional development for artists with computer instruction.
Beyond the Easel – Various lectures and presentations with Art Groups and Associations
Painting Demonstrations for various groups – Scarborough Art Guild, Oshawa Art Association
Brush it Bold painting workshops with Various groups – Markham grp of Artists, Meta4 Gallery, Oakville Art Assoc.
Brush it Bold painting workshops – self run both Zoom and live
Vancouver Island Art Workshops
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Butter Gallery, Collingwood ON
Canvas Gallery, Toronto ON
Colborne St. Gallery, Fenelon Falls ON
Koyman Galleries, Ottawa
Meta4, Port Perry, ON
Muse Gallery, Toronto, ON
The Avenue Gallery, Victoria, BC
Westland Gallery, London, ON
DOWNLOAD MY FULL CV HERE
EDUCATION
Graduate of Loretto Abbey, Toronto ON.
Self Taught Artist, Various Artists
Workshops
JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2025
Ontario Society of Artists Members Exhibition
2024 Federation of Canadian Artists Artist’s Choice Exhibition Letters to the Earth -between despair and hope – Georgina Art Gallery Society of Canadian Artists Open National Online Juried Exhibition Federation of Canadian Artists Signature Exhibition Federation of Canadian Artists Toronto Chapter A Slice of Life Exhibition East Central Ontario Art Association Annual Juried Exhibition Letters to the Earth -between despair and hope – Station Gallery
2023 Letters to the Earth -between despair and hope – Aurora cultural centre Society of Canadian Artists Open National Online Juried Exhibition The South Delta Artists Guild Annual Oil & Water Exhibition – First Prize East Central Ontario Art Association Annual Juried Exhibition- Dora Purdon Award for Best Oil Federation of Canadian Artists Limitless Exhibition
2022
East Central Ontario Art Association Annual Juried Exhibition- Dora Purdon Award for Best Oil
Society of Canadian Artists Open National Online Juried Exhibition
Ontario Society of Artists Conversations, OMAH
Ontario Society of Artists, 150 Show, The Lieutenant Governor’s Suite at Queens Park, Toronto
Paint Ontario
Federation of Canadian Artists Toronto Chapter Summer Pleasures Exhibition
2021
Federation of Canadian Artists Signature Exhibition – Silver medal for ‘Something that is red’
Federation of Canadian Artists Toronto Chapter Spring Forward Online Exhibition – 3rd place award
Federation of Canadian Artists Abstract Exhibition
East Central Ontario Art Association Annual Juried Exhibition – Gary Chapman award
Paint Ontario – second place plein air award
Ontario Society of Artists Members Exhibition
2020
Arts & Letters Club of Toronto N3xt
Paint Ontario – Sponsor Award
Federation of Canadian Artists Success! Exhibition as SFCA
Society of Canadian Artists Members Online Juried Exhibition – ‘On the quiet side’ award of merit
Federation of Canadian Artists Painting on the Edge Exhibition
Federation of Canadian Artists Landscapes Exhibition
Federation of Canadian Artists Active Members Exhibition
Federation of Canadian Artists Artist’s Choice Exhibition
Society of Canadian Artists Open National Online Juried Exhibition
2019
Society of Canadian Artists Open National Online Juried Exhibition
Ontario Society of Artists Eastern Hub, ‘Peripheral Visions’, Agnes Jamieson Gallery, Minden
Oshawa Art Association Juried Exhibition, Robert McLaughlin Gallery – It’s all Relative – Bronze Award
Federation of Canadian Artists Landscape Exhibition
Federation of Canadian Artists Shape and From Exhibition
Pineridge Art Council Annual Juried Exhibition – All that Jazz– Enbridge Pipelines Inc. Award
2018
Federation of Canadian Artists Active Members Exhibition
Federation of Canadian Artists ‘Artists Choice’ Exhibition – Third Prize ‘Leap of Faith’
Federation of Canadian Artists Abstracted Exhibition
Society of Canadian Artists National Online Juried Exhibition
Oshawa Art Association Juried Exhibition, Robert McLaughlin Gallery – Pacific Gravity – Award of recognition
Colborne Art Gallery Annual Juried Exhibition
Society of Canadian Artists Members Online Juried Exhibition
Society of Canadian Artists Open National Juried Exhibition
2017
Ontario Society of Artists Members Exhibition of Selected Works
Society of Canadian Artists National Online Juried Exhibition
Ontario Society of Artists MOSAIC Exhibition, Aurora Cultural Centre
Oshawa Art Association 50th Anniversary Juried Exhibition, Robert McLaughlin Gallery
East Central Ontario Art Association Annual Juried Exhibition – Dora Purdon Award for Best Oil
Society of Canadian Artists 49th International Open Juried Exhibition
2016
East Central Ontario Art Association Annual Juried Exhibition – Dora Purdon Award for Best Oil
Society of Canadian Artists National Online Juried Exhibition
Colour and Form Society Biennial Open Juried Exhibition
OSA Member Exhibition of Selected Works
2015
Ontario Society of Artists Annual Members Exhibition
Society of Canadian Artists Annual Members exhibition
East Central Ontario Art Association Annual Algonquin Park Show, Second Place
2014
Ontario Society of Artists Annual Members Exhibition
Society of Canadian Artists Annual Members Exhibition , Antoinette Stevens Award for best painting
East Central Ontario Art Association Annual Juried Exhibition – Honourable Mention
2013
Ontario Society of Artists Annual Members Exhibition
Ontario Society of Artists Exhibition ‘Continuum’ ..Arts & Letters Club, Toronto
East Central Ontario Art Association Annual Juried Exhibition – Honourable Mention
Carmichael Canadian Landscape Exhibition -Orillia Museum of Art & History
2012
Ontario Society of Artists Annual Members Exhibition
Society of Canadian Artists 44th Open National Juried Exhibition
A Brush with the Highlands Plein Air Festival Juried Show – Dorset Tower Award and Juror’s Choice
2011
East Central Ontario Art Association Annual Juried Exhibition – Dora Purdon Award
A Brush with the Highlands Plein Air Festival Juried Show - The Hawk River Log Chute Award and The Environmental Narrative Award
2009
McMichael Canadian Art Collection Autumn Art Show & Sale
2007
East Central Ontario Art Association Annual Algonquin Park Show
2006
Society of Canadian Artists Annual Members Juried show
2005
Scarborough Arts Council Juried Show ‘Fragments’
East Central Ontario Art Association Annual Algonquin Park Show
2004
Society of Canadian Artists Annual National Open Juried Show
Colour & Form Society Annual Juried Show
East Central Ontario Art Association Annual Algonquin Park Show
East Central Ontario Art Association Annual Juried Exhibition – Rose Baker award
2003
Scarborough Arts Council juried show ‘Elements’
East Central Ontario Art Association Annual Algonquin Park Show
2002
East Central Ontario Art Association Annual Algonquin Park Show
Georgina Arts Centre and Gallery Viewers Choice Veni Vidi Art Gallery, Port Perry ON “Nudes”
Uxbridge Celebration of the Arts Annual Juried Show
2001
East Central Ontario Art Association Annual Algonquin Park Show – 1st prize.
East Central Ontario Art Association Annual Juried Exhibition
Georgina Arts Centre and Gallery Viewers Choice – 1st prize floral – 3rd prize landscape
Orillia Museum of Art and History ‘Blooming Art’
2000
Orillia Museum of Art and History- ‘Blooming Art’
Veni Vidi Art Gallery, Port Perry ON -‘Oil & Water- Portraits’
Uxbridge Celebration of the Arts Annual Juried Show
SELECT PAST JURIED GROUP SHOWS
Toronto Artist Project
Toronto Art Expo
Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition
Cabbagetown Art & Craft Festival
Rideau Valley Art Festival
Ottawa Art Expo
AFFILIATIONS
Society of Canadian Artists- Elected member (SCA)
Ontario Society of Artists – Elected member (OSA) - current VP
Federation of Canadian Artists – Senior Signature Status (SFCA)
East Central Ontario Art Association (ECOAA) –Past President, Past Fall workshop coordinator, website design & management, Membership Chair and Past Newsletter editor.
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Province of Ontario Archival Collection
Hospitals of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP)
Gottschalk Forensic Accounting & Valuations Inc., Toronto, ON
Fredenberg & Gullette Attorney, Phoenix, AZ
Dr. Shawn Moore Optometrist, Orillia, ON
RCIM Family Law, Calgary, AB
Henderson Partners LLP, Oakville, ON
RBC, Toronto, ON
Mark Motors of Ottawa
MEDIA
HGTV Candice Tells All
HGTV Income property Film Production:
Pixels, CityTV Steven & Chris, HGTV Property Brothers
Urbandale Construction, promotion of Allora condominiums, Ottawa ON
PUBILCATIONS
Art Gallery of Ontario – AGO Insider featuring ‘ Light Interrupted’ from ‘Conversations’ at the OMAH
Author of Beyond the Easel – Professional Development for Visual Artists www.beyondtheeasel.com
Pratique des Arts, Edition 163, France – Feature Interview
https://lfpress.com/entertainment/local-arts/artists-explore-unseen-aspects-of-wilderness-at-london-gallery
http://m.mykawartha.com/news-story/5765553-lindsay-gallery-hosting-double-vision-exhibit
Bancroft THIS WEEK - July 15, 2015 -Riding the Elephant (Lake Road) with Sheila Davis http://www.bancroftthisweek.com/?p=4759
Brock Citizen April 22, 1997 News of Georgina Arts Centre
Brock Citizen April 5, 2002 Library Exhibition
V. Krause Nurseries, Fruit Catalogue 2001, cover image
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Juror – 2020 Society of Canadian Artists Open International Exhibition
Group mentoring with the Federation of Canadian Artists
Sage mentor (art business end) with Mastrius
FCA jury duties
OSA jury duties
INSTRUCTION & DEMONSTRATIONS
Beyond the Easel – weekend workshop in professional development for artists with computer instruction.
Beyond the Easel – Various lectures and presentations with Art Groups and Associations
Painting Demonstrations for various groups – Scarborough Art Guild, Oshawa Art Association
Brush it Bold painting workshops with Various groups – Markham grp of Artists, Meta4 Gallery, Oakville Art Assoc.
Brush it Bold painting workshops – self run both Zoom and live
Vancouver Island Art Workshops
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Butter Gallery, Collingwood ON
Canvas Gallery, Toronto ON
Colborne St. Gallery, Fenelon Falls ON
Koyman Galleries, Ottawa
Meta4, Port Perry, ON
Muse Gallery, Toronto, ON
The Avenue Gallery, Victoria, BC
Westland Gallery, London, ON
DOWNLOAD MY FULL CV HERE