Upon spending four years in Thunder Bay, ON, I gained a profound appreciation for nature and all its shapes, colours and complexities. This bond with nature strengthened while visiting a friend in Spain. I adopted an intense admiration for the work of Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi. His exciting use of colours and organic forms offer me some of the most fantastic and imaginative interpretations of nature I have ever seen.

Over the years I have focused my attention on interpreting the human figure with the belief that through this subject could I best voice my creative energy. I now realize great satisfaction can be gained when I spend as much time looking for the energy in the world around us as I once did for that within each of us. Through its infinite combinations of shapes and colours, nature expresses itself in its own language. I try to interpret this language on the canvas as best I can. With spontaneous movements of the brush, I feel I can most honestly convey the essence of its words.

My oil paintings are in tune with the varying landscapes of Ontario, and share the whimsical approach for which Gaudi is well-known and admired. My intention is not to reproduce nature as it may be seen through a glance, but to interpret the ‘words’ which our environment shares with all of us. I express its energy, reading between the lines of nature’s language.