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About Me
I create art works with water media on wood, paper or canvas and am always looking for fresh colours and spontaneous expression. For the past two years I've been painting Nova Scotia and Ottawa landscapes in watercolour and chalk pastels on birch panels. This work is totally unique and full of interesting texture because the watercolour brings out the grain of the wood.
Painting on such experimental surfaces became a possibility for me because I studied Chinese watercolour techniques for eight years in Montreal with noted artist and teacher Ming Ma. He taught his students to put the right colour on the first time and to go with the flow of water as it moves across the painting surface.
My other inspirations include Emily Carr and Tom Thomson. From 2006 to 2008 I worked on a series called Spirit Trees, which highlighted giant old-growth trees in western Canada and the U.S.
The latest gallery to represent me is Gordon Harrison Gallery in Ottawa. Other galleries have been Remington Gallery in New York, Ottawa Art Gallery as well as Parkdale Gallery and Sante Restaurant/Gallery in Ottawa, and Ame-Art Gallery in Montreal. Between 2005 and 2010, I showed work at Foyer Gallery as a juried artist.
My work now hangs in the Statistics Canada internet division and other collections in Canada, the U.S., Australia, Norway, and France. Also in 2007, my full-page profile was published in Ottawa Life Magazine and the mixed-media work, Redwood Forest 2, was chosen as the cover art for Oblique Strokes.
