The coast, forest, mountains, sea, and sky are the starting point for my work.

 

The heartbeat of nature beats within us all; in the modern world this is, however, so easily lost. I feel it is this primordial heartbeat that flows through me when I create — a heartbeat that resonates through the ages, across all indigenous cultures.

 

It is that essential Self, resonant in me thousands of generations later, that I am looking to connect with and express through the parallels of timeless forms — an inner spiritual truth expressed through my art. 

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Most of my finished pieces are on large scale canvas. They often begin as smaller multimedia collages built in layers. Image, pattern, and colour combine to create these pieces. They intend to create a mood of past, present, and future. Abstract images are interwoven with the symbolic. Techniques, forms, and pattern are combined and unified to create fantastical landscapes rooted in places visited. Translated into the imaginary and alive with primitive references. An illusion to the unimaginable mystery of the universe.

 

Prisms of colour often lighten the sky, and birds embroidered with pattern and texture are silhouetted against a flat moon. Richly decorated totems, simple in form, reach upwards; ornate plants, flowers, and trees grow in mysterious gardens.

 

My canvases are often huge in scale, others are more modest in size.