Artist Statement

I am a passionate, late blooming, 56-year-old abstract painter, without formal training, who decided in 2015, with the help of Cameron’s The Artist Way, to make art after a 25-year absence. My working style and interests have evolved immensely and now I paint for selfcare, self-expression, anger, sadness and the joy of color, lines, scale and space. It’s a meditative and spiritual practice. And my pieces are getting bigger and BIGGER, like 36 x 48 inches. Pre-pandemic, I created a series of small, 8 x 10-inch pieces that represented living with anxiety, trauma and food addiction. These honest and optimistic works seem to draw a lot of people in and I was invited by dub poet and OCAD instructor to talk about them as part of her guest artist series in 2019.

Last January, I was honored to have two works in the Toronto Gallery 1313 new artist winter show. December 2021, I was invited to exhibit in the “I Am My Art” group show on King Street East. And just before the pandemic lockdown in February 2020, I was part of a group show at the Leslie Grove Gallery that focused on women’s mental health. I submitted my “Madman in the House” multi-media piece that I made with water color, ink and written text. My first group exhibition was at Sunnybrook Hospital with the Don Valley painting community in 2017.