Series in Progress

Blurring Lines – Between Beginnings and Endings; Between Questions and Answers Regardless of the series, the artworks themselves always begin with a question, a curiosity about a technique or a subject, a movement or a light. But the images I create are never really an answer, instead as I download them from my camera and […]

Terracotta Terrains

Blurring Lines – Between the Consciously and Unconsciously Seen I remember learning as a child that our brains automatically fill in areas our eyes don’t actually see. It led to a lifelong fascination with potential differences between what we consciously and unconsciously see. I find myself asking: is what I actually see, what I think […]

Relationscapes

Blurring Lines – Between What is and What isn’t Whether it is fiction or non-fiction, I am an avid reader. It gives me an opportunity to engage with others and to think in relation to them. When I was looking at changing the way I worked with a camera, part of my process was to […]

Lines of Flight

Blurring Lines – Between Subject, Viewer and Creator As a viewer (or listener, as it may be), I often wonder at the creative ingenuity of artists. How in the world do they manage that brush control, or conceive putting those notes of that instrument together with those of this instrument?! And for years, as an […]

Water’s Ways

Blurring Lines – Between Painting and Photography As an artist, I have always been interested in exploring and crossing the boundaries between mediums. When I am painting, I experiment with ways to incorporate sculptural elements, sometimes layering canvases and moulding them, other times adding copious amounts of plaster to the wooden boards or wax into […]

I had a Dream I was Hans Arp

Blurring Lines – Between New and Old In the course of learning new techniques or experimenting with different ideas, I sometimes produce material that seems to have served its purpose e.g., a painting that ‘didn’t work’ or test prints. While there are some straightforward ways to reuse them such as painting over a canvas, I […]