Artist Statement

I’m a Guelph-based artist whose practice integrates abstract forms and intuitive mark-making to explore repetition, deconstruction, and collage. By combining painting, monotype printing, and hand-dyed textile techniques, my work examines fragility, memory and materials. I create artwork that is meant to be touched.

What began in 2020 as a curiosity about natural dyes has evolved into a focused practice following a workshop in the fall of 2023. Since then, I’ve been constructing two-dimensional fibre works using repurposed cotton sheets and plant-based dyes, drawing inspiration from medical imaging. My newest series of work was inspired by my own experience with the ageing process. As our bodies slowly reveal the wear and tear of life, we rush to see what can be salvaged or put back together. I have spent many hours dyeing, dismantling and reconstructing old linens to build cotton ‘canvases’ that are then stretched onto frames. These new pieces continue to address my preoccupation with repetition and material, but they also act as a metaphor for our own fragility and resilience. As an ode to domestic ritual, I have also been experimenting with ‘food waste’ aprons, hand dyed tea towels and dinner napkins.

I graduated from the Interdisciplinary Studies program at OCA (now OCAD University) with a focus on experimental painting. After decades building a successful career in arts administration, event management and community outreach (Craft Ontario, One of a Kind Show, City of Guelph), I’m now focusing on my own artistic practice. Currently working out of my studio at Boarding House Arts, I live in downtown Guelph and am a member of CARFAC Ontario, Craft Ontario and Guelph Arts Council.