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UN Dress, AD Dress, RE Dress

‘Know yourself’ - Socrates (possibly paraphrased)

These paintings are a celebration of the feminine. You’ll find the contrast of subtle, calm delicacy with bold and passionate power all unafraid of being seen. Accidents are welcomed as part of the whole picture. Underlying the intent is a call to action: be yourself. Live your life as YOU.
The success and resulting exciting images evolve by trusting the process as a dynamic concept. Not overthinking. Translating inner perception and understanding into action.

As a society, we are obsessed with how we appear to others. We project ourselves through our collected materials and possessions to the point where we almost become them. Whatever the current fashion might be, it provides an outer layer through which to project and present oneself in a specific way. In the Gown Series, I removed the human image completely and focused on the energy that shapes emotions, wishes, dreams, and imaginations. The accoutrements, passion and vitality that enmesh with human desire are presented again and again in distinctive visual poems created with thick paint, enthusiastic motion and found fragments.

“Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it.” Albert Einstein

On display from June 3rd to July 5th, 2026

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Jun de Fille de la Mer

Acrylic on Baltic birch wood panel.

20" x 16"

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Leap and the Net Will Appear

Mixed media on wood panel

18" x 24"

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Voila

Mixed media on wood panel. Created for Veuve Clicquot's Yelloweek, Toronto

20" x 16"

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Safe House

Mixed media on Baltic birch wood panel.

16" x 20"

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XO Landscape

Acrylic on board, framed

7.5" x 7.5" 

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Sawmill Creek Series

India ink on water colour paper

9" x 12" 

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Candle Sticks

Torched and sealed Douglas fir, with metal candle cups

12" x 3.3" x 3.5" 

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End Table

Torched and sealed solid Douglas Fir

15.5" x 15.5" x 20"

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Rags to Riches

60" x 36" 

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Unpredictable Weather

Mixed media on Baltic birch wood panel.

40" x 30"

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Makin Whoopee

Acrylic on Baltic birch wood panel.

41" x 31"

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Where There's Smoke

Charcoal on paper, mounted on wood panel. Sealed with UV varnish.

14" x 10"

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Canadian Landscape (Empty Blanket) Study

Acrylic on canvas mounted on Baltic birch wood panel.

20" x 16" 

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Cloud IX

Mixed Media on Baltic birch panel. 

60" x 36"

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Song for the Son of a Preacher Man

Mixed Media on Baltic birch wood panel.

60" x 36"

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Midnite Waltz

Acrylic on Baltic birch panel.

40" x 30"

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In the Pink

Acrylic on Baltic Birch panel.

20" x 16"

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Hot Tamale

Mixed media on plywood, framed with painted ash wood. 

30" x 24"

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Giddy, Feels Like Spring

Acrylic on Baltic birch wood panel. 

20" x 16"

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Electric Blue

Acrylic on wood panel.

23.5" x 20"

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Drama Queen

Acrylic on distressed plywood. Custom framed with painted ash.

28"x 17.5" x 2.5"

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Chemistry

Acrylic on paper, mounted on Baltic Birch wood panel.

48" x 36"

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Broadway

Mixed Media on plywood, framed with painted ash wood. 

48" x 24" x 2"

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Dance Like No One Is Watching

Wall Sculpture, laser-cut engineered flooring.

60" x 48" 

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XOXO

Acrylic on panel

24" x 72"

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