Connecting the Arts
she/her
My passion for creating art started with photography, where I often create abstract images. My multi-layered mixed media practice continues that exploration, focusing on the interplay of light – extremes between the darkest darks and the lightest lights, often resulting in dramatic collisions of colour.
Membership
I am a photographer, printmaker and mixed media artist. My creative
exploration started with formal training in photography. I quickly needed to
push the creative envelope and sought ways to combine photography with
other mediums.
That exploration led me to a passion for the wonderful versatility and
unpredictability of encaustic painting (hot wax, damar resin and a blow
torch) where I often combined photography or other collage elements,
always working in layers.
Through the Fine Arts Program at the University of Alberta (both Visual Arts
Certificate and Fine Arts Citation attained 2022), and numerous other
workshops and courses, I continue to push my creative boundaries.
My current work generally starts with water-based media and often
incorporates collage elements, including photography, digital art and paper I
have handprinted or painted. My process often cycles back to my love for
wax, now cold wax and oil. Still working in layers, obscuring then revealing /
waxing and waning, I continue to explore the interplay of light and colour.
