“My recent oil and mixed media works depict curious, dream-like scenes. They are inspired by sites explored while traveling abroad (pre-Covid), landscapes discovered around Alberta and British Columbia, and places visited locally in my everyday routine. Memories, imaginings, and my own photography are fused, morphing into surreal abstract landscapes.
 
These unlikely spaces often revisit familiar landscape tropes - with oceans, mountains, forests, and desert terrain meeting my less literal visual language of paint swaths, arcs, and floating forms. These images are intentionally ambiguous, inviting viewer interpretation and personal narrative.

Incorporating ink transfers of my own photography, I attempt to blur boundaries between media; I embrace surreptitious transitions between the photographic transfers and the realistic application of oil paint framed by abstract forms. Hints of photography amid the painted fictions lend credibility to these imagined, fantastical worlds.

Celestial, terrestrial, and aquatic motifs are present throughout the series. Ideas of regeneration, cycles, and the search for structure within ephemeral, fluid spaces seem to be recurring considerations.

These fanciful paintings are intended as little moments of escapism – which for me, has taken on increased significance in 2020.”