She spent her formative years in Port Colborne on Lake Erie, in Ontario where she first developed her love of nature and interest in drawing.

Her more formal career began with courses from the Ontario College of Art, weaving instruction from Robert Cawood ( the Village Weaver), and many photography excursions. Over time she honed these skills through painting abstract watercolours, weaving tapestry, and taking artistic photographs while travelling; all of which could be accomplished in some small measure while developing a successful and rewarding career in teaching.

She takes advantage of the many opportunities to take workshops from well-known painters, all of whom have enhanced and revitalized her approach to expressing her view of the world around her.

Her approach varies depending on her subject matter and mood. Plein Aire excursions result in expressionistic interpretations using either watercolour or acrylic where colour placement and choice results in a vibration representing nature’s life force.

Her excitement with living things is demonstrated through her abstractions of creatures. Using stamps created specifically to enhance the creature’s energy, she overlays and washes in order to express the creature’s essence.

As well, she uses this same stamping technique to create abstracts which encourage the viewer to discern its meaning and delve into its nooks and crannies. The eye dances throughout, alighting here and there in sheer delight.

Nature is her muse. She expresses the beauty, the integration of all life, and the complex, exciting and mysterious interplay of light, dark, colour, texture, and shape, clearly evident in every glimpse of our world. She shares her unique view of this world through her paintings, weavings, and photography.

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