Artist's Statement:
I love the process of painting. I use palette knives to apply oil paint on canvas often mixed with cold wax to give it a fairly matt and sculptural look. While working on a canvas, I am constantly solving problems. I enjoy taking advantage of mistakes and letting the work have a mind of it's own. While painting, I feel angst, frustration, exhilaration and then I relax. I love the beginning - a blank canvas. The process challenges me.
My work often involves a dialogue or relationship between areas of intensity or excitement on the canvas. They are separated by large areas of space. Space is important. It's what I call breathing room... a "nothingness" except for marks made my my knives. Space helps define the forms. The use of color is as important as form.
I have moved to a small island near Kingston. It's barren in winter. I have been inspired by January's soft gray, white and black forms, cracking ice flows on on the St. Lawrence, hard-packed snow on paths, the stillness... areas of intensity beside space. Perhaps the viewer will find something familiar, but undefined about my art.
Education
2002 Bachelor of Fine Arts (honors), Art-Art history Programme , University of Toronto in Mississauga.
2000 Sheridan College Studio Arts Degree.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009 Christmas group show, Engine Gallery, Distillery, Toronto.
2009 Femme Artists, Galerie D’Este, 1329 avenue Green, Westmount, Sept 9 –
Oct 11. Permanent Collection.
2009 Engine Gallery, Distillery – July group show.
2009 Kingston Arts Council Juried Art Salon.
2009 Robert Macklin Gallery, Kingston, On. permanent collection.
2009 Muse Gallery, various shows, permanent collection.. Toronto.
2008 International Art Fair. Toronto Convention Centre - Engine Gallery
October 22 – 26.
2008 Engine Gallery Distillery. May 14 - June.
2007 Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto Convention Centre - Engine Gallery. October 26 – 29.
2007 “Represented”, Alumni show, Eastern Front Gallery, May 16-27, 750 A
Queen Street East, Toronto.
2006 Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto Convention Centre, Nov.10-13,
Engine Gallery.
2006 Muse Gallery, group show, 1230 Yonge St., Toronto. August-.
2006 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Nathan Phillip’s Square, Toronto. July 7-9.
2006 “33rd Annual Juried Show of Fine Arts” - Art Gallery of Peel, 9 Wellington
E., Brampton, April 26-May 30.
2006 “Revolving Door” summer group show with Engine Gallery, 1112 Queen St West, Toronto.
2006 Valentine’s Day Juried Show, “Love Potion Project” - Propeller, 984 Queen St.
West, Toronto, February 1 – 12.
2005 “Little Art Show” BMW Building, 11 Sunlight Park Rd. Toronto. Nov. 19.
2005 “32nd Annual Juried Show of fine Arts,” Art Gallery of Peel, Brampton.
April 27–May 29.
2005 “Fragile Boundaries,” invitational show & fundraiser for Save the Children Canada,. Held in February at Eastern Front Gallery, 750A Queen St. E Toronto.
2005 “The Blue Show.” Eastern Front Gallery, 750A. Queen St. E., Toronto.
2004 “Cabinets of Curiousity,” EF Gallery, Oct.16, 1114 Dundas St.
E, Toronto.
2004 “The Little Art Show.” Nov.. BMW Building. Toronto.
2004 Eastern Front Gallery (EF) Member, Feb. 1.
2004 “The Longest Night,” Eastern Front juried exhibition, Dec. 3-21.
2003-05 Harbinger Gallery, member, 22 Dupont St. E., Waterloo, On. N2J 2G9
2003 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto.
2003 “30th Annual Juried Show of Fine Arts,” Art Gallery of Peel, Peel Heritage
Complex, 9 Wellington St. E., Brampton.
2003 “Ingredients,” group show at Gallery 61, March 20 – April 3, 61 Ossington Ave., Toronto.
2000 “Precision,” a student art show at David Mirvish Books on Art , 596 Markham St., Toronto.
2000 “27th” Annual Juried Show of Fine Arts,” Art Gallery of Peel, Brampton, On.
1999 “1999 Graduate Exhibition,” (Sheridan College and UTM), Blackwood
Gallery, Kaneff Centre, 3350 Mississauga Rd. N., Mississauga, On.
1999 “Graduate Exhibition,” Living Arts Centre, Laidlaw Hall, 4141 Living Arts Dr., Mississauga.
1999 “Hart House Art Competition,” 7 Hart House Circle, University of Toronto.
1999 “26th Annual Juried Show of Fine Arts,” Art Gallery of Peel, Brampton.
1999 “22nd Annual Juried Show of Fine Art and Sculpture,” Visual Arts
Mississauga, Art Gallery of Mississauga, 300 City Centre Dr., Miss. bvg
1998 “21st Annual Juried show of Fine Art and Sculpture,” Visual Arts
Mississauga, Art Gallery of Mississauga.
Solo Exhibitions
2008 “Game,” Engine Gallery, April 3 – April 27, 1112 Queen St. W, Toronto.
2007 “Shift,” Sept. 13, Snap Contemporary Art, 190 West 3rd Ave., Vancouver.
2007 “Aggregates,” Engine Gallery, Feb. 15, 1112 Queen St. W., Toronto.
2005 Eastern Front Gallery, Oct. 19 – 30, 750A Queen St. East, Toronto.
2004 Eastern Front Gallery, Nov. 10 – 29, 1114 Dundas St East, Toronto.
1999 Hart House, The Arbor Room, 7 Hart House Circle, University of Toronto, On.
Other
2007 Art Gallery of Windsor, “Rentals and Sales”, 401 Riverside Dr. Windsor, Ont.
Awards
2000 “Faculty Drawing Award,” Sheridan College, Oakville, On.
2000 “Art Gallery of Peel Award,” Drawing, Sheridan College.
2000 “Jurors’ Award, “ 27th Annual Juried show of Fine Arts. “
Art Gallery of Peel.
1999 “Sylvia C. Morton Prize,” for studio arts, Canada-wide university prize.
1999 “Wittnauer International Award” for sculpture. 22nd Annual Juried Show
of Fine Art and Sculpture,” Visual Arts Mississauga.
1998 “Liquitex Canada Award” for painting, Sheridan College.
