The first piece I remember making with Japanese paper, some15 years ago, was on a bluish paper, likely dyed with indigo, where I drew little dots with black walnut ink in a…
Breathing in the fragrant morning air on a run in High Park, my friend Denise spotted a spring crop of horsetail. Equisetum, or horsetail, is a rare “living fossil” with a life line…
While Toronto is still covered in snow, green life will soon sprout from the ground. Garden paintings, reminiscent of traditional botanicals, evolved out of my relationship with my garden in Elora, Ontario, where…
arrival: it is quiet, very, very quiet walking: i hear only the crunch of my footsteps and the crack of the trees daily, my feet get to know the changing texture of…
It’s Valentine’s day. I love my mom’s heart shaped cookies. I was at Stubbe earlier today buying chocolate hearts when at the cash, I dropped one on the floor and it cracked…
Recently, I woke when there was still a sliver of the moon and the sky was barely brightening. While I am generally reluctant to crawl out of my warm bed on winter…
Sliced wasp nests, pancakes, jellyfish, oceanic, cells, burrowed wood … these are just some of references that viewers expressed at IDS 13 when looking at my sumi ink drawings – all of…
I recently attended Dreamwalker Dance Company’s2012 presentation of The Whole Shebang which brought together an encounter between audience and performers weaving together, dance, sound and visuals. It felt genuine, intimate and alive.…
I had the great pleasure of exhibiting my work this summer at Salle des Arcades, Couleur Garance in Lauris, France. Situated on a cliff, the village is incredibly picturesque with the Luberon…
The seed of an idea towards collaboration began in the studio one evening when my friend Sonja Denelzen of Thieves Boutique saw my “cell structures” drawings in process floating around the space.…